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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.

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[–] JWBananas@startrek.website 61 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] d3Xt3r@lemmy.nz 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

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

[–] Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] grinceur@programming.dev 41 points 2 years ago

Btw it makes using other OSs painful when you are used to it...

[–] Bitrot@lemmy.sdf.org 26 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

[–] pinchcramp@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] JWBananas@startrek.website 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How do middle-click-to-paste and middle-click-to-scroll conflict?

Some of us are clumsy.

[–] pinchcramp@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 years ago

That's not something I thought about. Good thing that you can disable the feature then

[–] stepanzak@iusearchlinux.fyi 4 points 2 years ago

How did you setup auto scroll? It doesn't work for me.

[–] ChristianWS@lemmy.eco.br 24 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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.

[–] moreeni@lemm.ee 21 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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
[–] dandroid@dandroid.app 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] melvin@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

[–] ChristianWS@lemmy.eco.br 2 points 2 years ago

KDE has the option to disable middle click paste, so I do that. Out of sight, out of mind

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[–] Quazatron@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] Blizzard@lemmy.zip 11 points 2 years ago (4 children)

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?

[–] 6xpipe_@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago

What your talking about is called a clipboard manager, and there are tons of them out there. All with varying features.

[–] elkalbil@jlai.lu 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Klipper on KDE offers a clipboard history. Don't know about other DEs.

[–] demonsword@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

qlipper is the one I use the most

[–] tacostrange@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago

Wow! TIL too, thanks!

[–] Gsus4@feddit.nl 7 points 2 years ago

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

[–] vis4valentine@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago

Ohhhhh!!!! IT WORKS!

This will be so usefull in the future.

[–] JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This user, at least, has not touched a mouse in a decade. Young people do not even know what a mouse is.

[–] pirat@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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???

[–] Unmapped@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

On my arch install with hyperland, clip boards have been by far the hardest thing to setup. I finally got a basic clipboard manger working using clipman and wofi. But tbh I don't really understand how that's working.

My main issues though have been trying to copy from one with vim open to other terminal with vim. Copying from vim elsewhere using y(yank) works fine. Copying elsewhere into vim works great. But vim to vim will not work for me.

Also trying to find a way to make copying text out of a terminal running tmux not so overly complex and tedious.

[–] stepanzak@iusearchlinux.fyi 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

For copying from Tmux, I recommend tmux-yank. There are also multiple plugins allowing you to copy predefined set of text types (IP adresses, URLs, etc...). I'm currently using tmux-thumbs. Note that you have to set custom command in tmux-thums to actually copy the text to xclip or whatever you are using. example in my dotfiles

[–] Unmapped@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

I have tmux-thumbs, but only been able to use it a few times. Apparently most of what I need to copy is not ip's and URLs. But this tmux-yank looks like what I'm looking for. I'll give it a try. Thanks.

[–] donio@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Clipboard managers often have an option to synchronize them. There are standalone tools as well, autocutsel for example.

[–] brax@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago

This has been a thing for like ever. Throws me off a lot in Windows when I just want a temporary clipboard to search something and nothing comes up.

I think PowerShell abides by it, but that's it.

[–] Grass@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago

I didn't realize they were different. I always thought my copy failed and tried to use one copy with the other paste.

[–] wviana@lemmy.eco.br 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] wviana@lemmy.eco.br 2 points 2 years ago

Thought more vim folks would notice this.

[–] radioactiveradio@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

3 i use copyq with kde's clipboard and the highlighting thingy.

[–] neosheo@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago

Lol i had no idea