Steve:
> On Thu, 19 Nov 2020 22:16:46 +0100
> aw@??? wrote:
> > Please, in all your critique of X's mechanism in doing cut&paste
> > remember, that all this worked quite well until around 2000, when
> > (mostly) KDE and Gnome started to try to make Linux more and more
> > like Windows and ignoring and sidelining established mechanisms.
>
> That's not how I remember it. When I first started using Linux in 1998,
> RH 5.0, with fvwm user interface, cut and paste sucked.

"Sucked" is a somewhat fuzzy thing and it also depends on
whatever you expected in 1998, my guess is that you didn't
like the middle click thing, while others like it.

As it stands today, we have two somewhat colliding ways to do
cut'n'paste in linux+X.

Regards,
/Karl Hammar