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The Panel and the Desktop
Very often, it's useful to move some text, or an object in a
program, from one place to another. It's also very common to need to
duplicate some text, for example, if you're typing the same thing
several times. The system used for doing this is known as the
clipboard. There are two slightly different ways to use this system,
known technically as the “selection” and the
“
clipboard
”. We'll look at them separately:
This method uses the mouse to copy text from one place to
another. The method is:
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Select the text you want to copy.
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Click the middle mouse button at the place you want the text to be
copied to. This can be in the same program as you copied the text
from, or in another program entirely.
If you have three buttons on your mouse, this is easy, but if not, all
is not lost! If you have only two buttons, try clicking them both at
the same time instead of the middle mouse button.
With this method, you can copy text, or “cut” it
(that is, remove it from one place and move it to another). You can
use either the mouse and the menu entries, or the keyboard with this
method. I'll list both ways, with the menu entry to use, followed by
the keyboard shortcut which will do the same thing, like this:
->
(
Ctrl
+
X
)
Moving (“Cutting”) Text
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Select the text you want to cut.
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From the menu, select
->
(
Ctrl
+
X
), and the text will be removed from its current location.
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Position the text cursor at the point you want to
insert the text. This can be in the same application you got the text
from, or another application entirely. Select
->
(
Ctrl
+
V
), and the text will appear at the point where you placed
the cursor.
Copying text from one place to another is very similar:
Copying Text
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Select the text you want to copy.
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From the menu, select
->
(
Ctrl
+
C
), and the text will be copied in the clipboard.
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Position the text cursor at the point you want to
insert the text. This can be in the same application you got the text
from, or another application entirely. Select
->
(
Ctrl
+
V
)
More Advanced Clipboard Use
The instructions above describe the default clipboard
behavior. The Klipper application, which you can add as an applet in
the panel (see the section called “Configuring Kicker” for instructions
on how to do this), provides some useful clipboard-related features,
like a clipboard history, and the ability to change the behavior of
the clipboard and selection. Take a look at the Klipper Handbook for
more information.
Related Information
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You can find more information about Kicker, the
KDE Panel, in KHelpCenter or by entering
help:/kicker
in Konqueror's
Location
bar.
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The Klipper
Handbook has information about the advanced clipboard management
features in KDE. You can read it in KHelpCenter or by entering
help:/klipper
in Konqueror's
Location
bar.
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