Pretty sure most of you already know this but for those who don’t: you have two clipboards in Linux. One is the traditional clipboard where you copy with control c and paste with control v. The other one is when you highlight text and use the mouse middle click to paste text.

More details here.

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      Is this applicable for Wayland as well? That link makes several references to X and its ecosystem of tools.

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        If I understand it correctly, Wayland only specifies a single clipboard but no primary. But most (all?) wayland compositors implement an additional protocol that’s also supported by the toolkits (gtk, qt, …) and programs like wl-clipboard.

        So yes, wayland also has clipboard + primary. But no secondary, as far as I found. Though I never used secondary on X anyway.

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    Ironically neither GNU nor Linux has a clipboard (well GNU Emacs probably has like 37 of them for some reason). “Primary selection” (the other clipboard that people don’t tell you about) started off on X11, which of course had to implement by XFree86, which became Xorg, and then it copied (ha ha) by other non-X-related software like gpm and toolkits like GTK when using Wayland.

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      Emacs’s regular clipboard is the “kill ring” which also allows you to retrieve any previously cut/copied text. It also has “registers” where you can store and retrieve snippets of text, which can be considered clipboards when used for this purpose. Registers can be referenced by any character you can type on your keyboard, including control characters like ^D.

      This totals… a lot of clipboards.

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    Not going to lie, I hate the middle click clipboard and disable it ASAP. I really dislike the idea that it copies things without my explicit permission.

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        Yes. You can test this by selecting something, closing that window and attempting to paste. It won’t work. Closing the window removes the information about what was highlighted, so there is nothing to paste. If it were to copy upon selection you’d still be able to paste.

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      It’s one of the things that I hated at first when moving from Windows, but then I got so used to it I just can’t live without it. Whenever I use Windows, I would try to quickly copypaste text using selection, doing so for 5-10 seconds, until I realise this is not a thing on this OS.

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        Ditto. And sometimes I use both the Ctrl+C and middle-click clipboards at the same time, when I want to copy two chunks of text. Like this:

        • Select chunk A, press Ctrl+C
        • Select chunk B
        • Shift window
        • Paste chunk B through middle-click
        • Paste chunk A through Ctrl+V
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          Windows and KDE Plasma both have CMD + V to show a list of all things that have been copied. So I always just do Ctrl + C, Ctrl + C, Ctrl + V, CMD + V -> down arrow -> enter. Though on KDE Plasma you will need another Ctrl + V to actually do the pasting after you have selected the value to paste, whereas on Windows selecting the value also pastes it. But the workflows are very similar.

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            Huh, I do not have CMD + V for clipboard contents in Plasma with Klipper. What distro is configuring that?

            I am assuming by CMD you mean Superkey. If not, I would like to know. I looked at Klipper shortcuts and didnt find it in there either.

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              By CMD, I mean the windows key. I am using Opensuse Tumbleweed. I thought I was just using the default clipboard, but I guess I’m not 100% sure.

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                Well I guess it is configured that way on my EndeavorOS laptop, so I wonder what I need to do to enable it. My desktop has been rolling for 4 years, maybe they added that at some point along the way.

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                I will give it a look an check it out. Been awhile since I used Suse. Totally cool. Oh and I meant the windows key. A lot of Linux folks call it the super key.

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                  I guess I was using the Mac term for it. I use all three heavily, so they all get mixed up on my head.

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      Lol I have gotten so used to it that I can barely use web terminals that don’t support it

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      I actually like the feature but could you explain how you disabled it? I’ve tried to merge all three clipboards into one a few years ago and couldn’t make it work

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        Whenever I use a touchpad without physical buttons, I usually disable the middle button entirely. It’s more of a hammer-to-mosquito solution than what you were asking, but it’s as easy as adding this command to the autostart file (on Xorg): xinput set-button-map "Name-of-your-Touchpad-goes-here" 1 0 3 4 5 6 7, where “Name-of-your-Touchpad-goes-here” can be found with xinput list --name-only.

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    I use auto scroll a lot, middle click paste is generally an immediate no for me.

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      How do middle-click-to-paste and middle-click-to-scroll conflict? In Firefox I can click-to-paste if the cursor is over an input field and click-to-scroll anywhere else. Never had any problem with this behavior.

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        You can’t in most apps but Firefox allows it. It requires an app to specifically enable the behavior instead. It’s terrible.

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    Neat, he?

    It’s a pain when you switch between Windows and Linux all the time and you can’t do the middle click in Windows.

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      Tbf, lots of things in Windows are a pain when you’re used to Linux.

      Correction: Lots more things are a pain…

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        But on the other hand, many things that you take for granted on Windows are a pain on Linux. For example, if you want to see advertisements, you can’t just open the Start menu.

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        Just simply…At least in Cinnamon, I can mouse over the audio icon on the panel and roll the scroll wheel to change the volume. Last time I tried it on Windows, you had to click the icon first. While that alone doesn’t sound like much, the whole OS is like that, needing extra little interactions for basically everything. Now that I’m used to using Cinnamon, using Windows feels like walking in beach sand.

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    Is it possible to have have a Windows 10-like clipboard in Mint? Where you can copy multiple stuff with ctrl+c and then press super+v to have a dropdown of things that you copied with a possiblity to pin some of them?

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    Oh, that explains why my steamdeck layout randomly pastes text when I’m trying to use a mmb shortcut on my dang browser

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    I knew and use this, but I never thought to call it two clipboards :)

    Plus I’d never heard of shift-ins, I just used ctrl-shift-c/v in graphic terminals :P

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      It’s like a rat but cute, right??

      btw do you know how to press Ctrl on my keyboard? I have already found the key of C, they’re all white and sound good, kind of like an organ, but I can’t see any Ctrl key. Also, do I need to press the entire key of C at once to copy? It’s gonna sound intense! But I haven’t learned using all 10 fingers yet for the keyboard. I only use two, so it will be hard to press them all at once while also pressing Ctrl once I find it! Is it one of those black keys? Actually I haven’t even heard about the key of V yet… So I can’t paste before I’ve learned a lot more! I’ve only learned A to D by now. And btw how do I compile in C#? Is keyboard really supposed to be so hard to use???