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.

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  • moreeni@lemm.ee
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    9 months 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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      9 months 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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        9 months ago

        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.