▲ 197 ▼ GNOME and Mozilla Discuss Proposal to Disable Middle Mouse Paste on Linux (linuxiac.com) submitted 8 months ago by petsoi@discuss.tchncs.de to c/linux@lemmy.ml 106 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] djdarren@piefed.social 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 8 child comments replies: [–] MouldyCat@feddit.uk 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". permalink fedilink source parent [–] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 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...) permalink fedilink source parent [–] mystik@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago on some apps; it works with ctrl-shift-v. so ctrl-v for the clipboard, and ctrl-shift-v for the cut buffer. permalink fedilink source parent [–] crater2150@feddit.org 1 point 8 months ago In most programs, you can paste the primary selection with Shift+Insert permalink fedilink source parent
[–] MouldyCat@feddit.uk 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". permalink fedilink source parent
[–] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 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...) permalink fedilink source parent
[–] mystik@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago on some apps; it works with ctrl-shift-v. so ctrl-v for the clipboard, and ctrl-shift-v for the cut buffer. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] crater2150@feddit.org 1 point 8 months ago In most programs, you can paste the primary selection with Shift+Insert permalink fedilink source parent