Recentely I swtiched from Windows to Linux and found out that the Linux version of IDL is quite a bit behind the Windows version considering the GUI. No color coding, cut and paste shortcuts do not work, mouse scroll wheel does not scroll the text, etc. My biggest problem is that I cannot copy the content of a direct draw window into the clipboard. In Windows I just used CRTL-C and then pasted the content into a word processor or a presentation software. Now in Linux when I click on the draw window and press CRTL-C a "Interrupt..." message shows up in the main window and nothing in the clipboard. They changed the Copy/Cut/Paste keys for the main windows from CRTL to ALT but that even in the main window does not work, the only way to Copy/Cut/Paste is to use the main menu or the right click context menu. If you press any of the ALT combinations only a letter shows up. Unfortunately, in the draw window nothing happens when you right click, CRTL-C, or ALT-C. I asked RSI technical support and they obviously blaimed everything on Linux not being standard. Their only solution was to take a screeen capture and use a image processing program to cut my draw window. I cannot accept this for several reasons: Linux is pretty standard, all my other programs understand and can do Copy/Cut/Paste with the usual CRTL-C/X/V keys. His suggestion showed that he did not really know much about IDL itself since any direct draw window content can be read into a variab with the TVRD procdure and then saved in a graphics file. But I want the Copy/Paste working. The whole Linux IDL GUI just likes very similar to the one I first saw about ten years ago, there does not seem to be any development. Anyway, I just want to ask how to make the Copy/Cut/Paste working from a direct draw wndow. I am using Fedora 5 x86_64 on a Dell 670 workstation with IDL 6.3, x86_84 version. Any help would be appreciated. George