On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 05:04:38PM -0500, Chris Siebenmann wrote: > | First xorg has three buffers, primary, secondary and clipboard. The > | primary gets used in the select/middle mouse paste, while the > | clipboard gets used by some programs with ctrl-c/ctrl-v is the > | standard. So depending on which buffer you want to paste from adjust > | the following. > > The easy rule of thumb for keeping the selections straight is that if > you just select text it becomes the primary selection (for example, if > you triple-click the URL bar in Firefox or sweep out some text in your > terminal program) while if you actually do an explicit 'copy' action (eg > Ctrl-C or picking Copy from a menu) it becomes the clipboard selection. > Most of the time, making something the clipboard selection also makes it > the primary selection.
Just install 'parcellite'; in its prefences settings, set it to "Synchronise clipboards" and then you'll never have to worry again. -- Thomas Adam -- "It was the cruelest game I've ever played and it's played inside my head." -- "Hush The Warmth", Gorky's Zygotic Mynci.
