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what middle button does

Posted Nov 10, 2011 10:34 UTC (Thu) by zzxtty (subscriber, #45175)
In reply to: what middle button does by tialaramex
Parent article: Why GNOME refugees love Xfce (Register)

Support (of what I consider to be the vastly superior) the "select / paste-current-selection" method is inconsistent (that's me being polite) on modern desktops. I'm now no longer sure what I'm going to get when I hit paste, sometimes the right thing, sometimes nothing, sometimes something from a week ago.

Ctrl + c was always used to send a SIGINT to a program, I always thought it odd when window managers started copying windows keyboard shortcuts.

I'm now trying to remember how we did handle copy/paste back in the days of twm/fvwm/olvwm, I seem to recall a whole bunch of clipboards that never kept in sync. The History of Copy and Paste - there's a book title for you, granted it probably won't be a best seller.

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what middle button does

Posted Nov 25, 2011 19:33 UTC (Fri) by jospoortvliet (subscriber, #33164) [Link]

I dunno what you count under modern desktops, then, for me Plasma at least has always been quite predictable thanks to Klipper... At least with Qt apps. Firefox, Chromium and some other GTK apps seem to screw up the clipboard sometimes (but surely not predictably, I'm not even sure it's them).