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[–] 3 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Well fuck me. That's kinda neat.

Shame it doesn't subsequently work with ctrl+v, because that would be even cooler.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago

    Once you're used to it, you can use the two separate clipboards independently. Say you wrote a sentence like, "one two five four three", you can correct it by selecting "three", cutting with Ctrl-X, then selecting "five" (meaning it is now in the selection buffer), hitting Ctrl-V to paste "three" from the clipboard, and then finally middle-click where you need to paste the "five".

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    I guess one could create shortcuts to a tool like wl-copy and wl-paste to either copy or paste content to primary selection (or regular clipboard for that matter). So in that case a simple script could run the command and in your desktop environment you setup a shortcut to run the script.

    Yes its hacky, but in Linux nothing is impossible. :-) (unless it is...)

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