Comment by kg
4 days ago
Is this one of the costs of 'the year of the linux desktop' - mac and windows users migrating to linux and getting confused by 'selecting text puts it in the clipboard without confirmation' and 'middle click pastes the clipboard contents'?
fwiw I find the workflow advantages of it questionable, since I often want to select some text and ctrl+v to replace it with the clipboard.
> 'selecting text puts it in the clipboard without confirmation' and 'middle click pastes the clipboard contents'
This behavior is not consistent across applications in Linux even.
> This behavior is not consistent across applications in Linux even.
The only application I've seen it (occasionally) not work is Emacs. I have a line in my config to ensure it always works.
In over 20 years of using Linux, I don't think I've encountered an app where middle click to paste doesn't work.