Copy + Paste

Posted May 23, 2013 16:03 UTC (Thu) by man_ls (guest, #15091)
In reply to: Homebrew by Cyberax
Parent article: Debian GNU/Hurd 2013 released

The terminal is very annoying in this respect. Lately I have taken to use Windows shortcuts on my trusty XFCE: Shift + Insert to paste since Control + V does not work in a terminal window. But it behaves very strangely. Sometimes it pastes the regular clipboard (the one for Copy and Paste), at other times it pastes the primary selection (the one for middle-click).

When using the mouse though, I find that the primary selection (select and middle-click) is very handy and sorely miss it on Mac OS X: it works, but only from and to a terminal window.