Hi,

I installed and ran F-Prot from KDE to check my NTFS partition. The scan results appeared in a text window, and F-Prot said that it found 3 suspicious files. However, I found no way to copy or save the results (and with an entry for each scanned file, I couldn't search them manually). What are you supposed to do next?

Don't get me wrong---I'm certainly not pumping Windows. But in virtually any Windows text box or window, you can select text (with the mouse, or Shift+arrows), or press Ctrl+A to select all of the text; press Ctrl+C to copy it; then press Ctrl+V to paste.

I've been surprised to find that these had no effect in most Linux desktop apps. Aren't these shortcuts considered universal conventions from pre-Windows, pre-Linux days? I thought they were even built into most programmers' text controls.

In any case, if Linux developers are trying to woo people away from Bill G. by making Linux desktops more intuitive, why wouldn't they include these widely-used shortcuts?

Cheers, Ander

AFAIK, all the KDE applications utilize <Ctrl + C>, <Ctrl + A>, <Ctrl + X> and <Ctrl + V> to copy, copy-all, cut and paste text. In fact, KDE itself allows you to specify your own keyboard shortcuts (or bindings as we call it).

Even Firefox, which is a GTK application, allows for those keyboard shortcuts, too.

BTW, you can simply highlight the text with the mouse to copy it, and middle-click the paste it. That's something I dearly miss in Windows.

You're right. I needed to update my s/w. :?)

F-Prot still doesn't let me select or copy any results, though. Have any clue about that?