Ludovic Bellière - 18.11.20, 10:11:12 CET: > On Tue, 17 Nov 2020 19:07:06 -0500 > > Steve Litt <sl...@troubleshooters.com> wrote: > > On Tue, 17 Nov 2020 08:16:11 -0500 > > Hendrik Boom <hend...@topoi.pooq.com> wrote: > > > > Other than deliberate exclusion of Linux users by Microsoft and > > their > > henchmen, the only area I've seen where Windows is better than Linux > > is cut and paste. On Windows, it's Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V, and IIRC that > > works seamlessly on both CLI and GUI. On Linux, it can be Ctrl+C > > and Ctrl+V, or highlight and middle mouse button (be sure to press > > and not turn at all), or menu edit and paste, or who knows what > > else. I hate, hate, HATE it: It deeply cuts into my daily workflow. > > Whenever you select something, the content is then sent to the PRIMARY > selection. As such, selecting text would be the equivalent of MS > Windows's CTRL-C. Content is then accessed using the middle mouse > button. > > Whenever the user specifically request the content to be copied, with > CTRL-C, the content would then be sent to the CLIPBOARD selection. > Accessed then using CTRL-V. > > There can be any number of selections (ie. buffers containing your > data), but we usually needs to take care of only three: PRIMARY, > SECONDARY and CLIPBOARD.
Plasma's Klipper has a functionality to unify some of this. It is an option to unify clipboard and actual selection. I bet this may refer to CLIPBOARD and PRIMARY selection. I enabled this option and it works most of the time. It is still not perfect though. I heard that with Wayland there is just one clipboard. I also really like the functionality that Klipper can store the last N selections or clipboard entries and I can still access them. You can also delete all of just one selection, for example if you copied a password. Best, -- Martin _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
