One of the long-term bugbears of users coming to Linux from just about
any other GUI is the existence of two totally separate clipboards; the
PRIMARY selection and the CLIPBOARD selection. I doubt I'm gonna get
the default behaviour changed, even though I think this default is
terribly confusing. However, how about we at least allow easy
configuration of this through some settings in /etc?
As far as I understand it, X11 is responsible for the double-clipboard
behaviour so X11 (or Wayland) is where it needs to be configurable. I
propose this: provide easy configuration of Wayland that allows the
PRIMARY selection to be silently ignored. When text is selected,
Wayland will acknowledge to the application ownership of PRIMARY, and
silently drop the content. It will not inform other programs that
PRIMARY has been taken ownership of, so other programs will not (IMHO
unintuitively) deselect their selections. When it comes to pasting
from PRIMARY (ie. via middle-click), Wayland will paste from the
CLIPBOARD selection instead of PRIMARY.
Would this be feasible? It would finally allow Windows-style
clipboard behaviour and satisfy many users (myself included).
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Best regards,
Jeremy Morton (Jez)
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