It's a JDK problem under Linux, we can't do anything about it, sorry. ... +The problem seems to be specific to some Linux distributions, probably to some particular XOrg/XFree versions. On our test machines with JDK 1.5.0_04 and Fedora Core 4 / RedHat Enterprise Linux 4 IDEA works perfectly and doesn't have such problem.+
I am using this without any problems... What kind of copying were you thinking about?
BTJ
Just selecting some text in the editor and then copying using either Ctrl-C or one of the menu/toolbar options.
Are you using JDK5? What exact version (I use 1.5.0_04)?
A reply from JetBrains:
It's a JDK problem under Linux, we can't do anything about it, sorry.
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+The problem seems to be specific to some Linux distributions, probably
to some particular XOrg/XFree versions. On our test machines with JDK
1.5.0_04 and Fedora Core 4 / RedHat Enterprise Linux 4 IDEA works
perfectly and doesn't have such problem.+