Pretty sure most of you already know this but for those who don’t: you have two clipboards in Linux. One is the traditional clipboard where you copy with control c and paste with control v. The other one is when you highlight text and use the mouse middle click to paste text.

More details here.

  • ChristianWS@lemmy.eco.br
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    1 year ago

    Not going to lie, I hate the middle click clipboard and disable it ASAP. I really dislike the idea that it copies things without my explicit permission.

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        1 year ago

        Yes. You can test this by selecting something, closing that window and attempting to paste. It won’t work. Closing the window removes the information about what was highlighted, so there is nothing to paste. If it were to copy upon selection you’d still be able to paste.

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      1 year ago

      It’s one of the things that I hated at first when moving from Windows, but then I got so used to it I just can’t live without it. Whenever I use Windows, I would try to quickly copypaste text using selection, doing so for 5-10 seconds, until I realise this is not a thing on this OS.

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        1 year ago

        Ditto. And sometimes I use both the Ctrl+C and middle-click clipboards at the same time, when I want to copy two chunks of text. Like this:

        • Select chunk A, press Ctrl+C
        • Select chunk B
        • Shift window
        • Paste chunk B through middle-click
        • Paste chunk A through Ctrl+V
        • Dandroid@dandroid.app
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          Windows and KDE Plasma both have CMD + V to show a list of all things that have been copied. So I always just do Ctrl + C, Ctrl + C, Ctrl + V, CMD + V -> down arrow -> enter. Though on KDE Plasma you will need another Ctrl + V to actually do the pasting after you have selected the value to paste, whereas on Windows selecting the value also pastes it. But the workflows are very similar.

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      1 year ago

      Lol I have gotten so used to it that I can barely use web terminals that don’t support it

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      1 year ago

      I actually like the feature but could you explain how you disabled it? I’ve tried to merge all three clipboards into one a few years ago and couldn’t make it work

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        1 year ago

        Whenever I use a touchpad without physical buttons, I usually disable the middle button entirely. It’s more of a hammer-to-mosquito solution than what you were asking, but it’s as easy as adding this command to the autostart file (on Xorg): xinput set-button-map "Name-of-your-Touchpad-goes-here" 1 0 3 4 5 6 7, where “Name-of-your-Touchpad-goes-here” can be found with xinput list --name-only.