Something that is irritating me is copy and paste in gnome (or it it gnu/linux as a whole?)

When i am doing one of my links on verbal diary it really irks if I try to do it with the mouse.

This link for example. I highlighted "this" a dialogue opens with a field to place the link in. When it opens it is preset to show http:// (which is blogger) and a small "newspaper icon" appears by the cursor and follows it around. I assume it must be a clipboard containing "this" (with linux highlighting puts the text on the clipboard - there is no need to right-click and choose copy). I try to get rid of http: (I am pasting the whole address ie "http://s67.photobucket.com/albums/h293/ecf1691/th_google_paste_search.png"...if I don't get rid of the http I will get http://http://s67.photobucket.com/albums...etc...

In my attempts to do this all of a sudden an unexpected address appears:the existing http:// followed by http://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gif. This seems to be...the location of the dialogue window or what...I haven't a clue.


In XP I would copy the address to the clipboard drag over the http use the del key to delete then I would right-click paste and job's done. The process in linux is even longer - my description above only gets me to the pasting of an incorrect address. It takes further wrangling to actually finish the job. On the whole I like the auto-copy and middle-click pasting you get with Linux. (I've heard it described as a unix convention so you probably do the same thing with Macs.) No doubt something similar is doable in XP through 3rd party software. I must scout around for it.

And what happens if I do link to that mystery address?