On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 03:25:07PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > On Thu, 20 Apr 2017 11:56:54 +0200 > Helge Hafting <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Most linux sw lets me mark text with the mouse, and then click the > > middle mouse button in some other window in order to paste it there. > > No wading through "cut/paste menus", this is one of the strengths of > > the X windowing system. > > > > I have no problem pasting terminal text into LyX (or using special > > paste to deal with line endings). But how do I go the other way? > > Sometimes, I want to mark a paragraph or two in LyX, and paste it > > into vim or something else running in an xterm. But that doesn't > > work, nothing happens. If I have copy-pasted text within that > > terminal before, the old text is pasted instead of what I marked in > > LyX. > > > > Doesn't LyX put marked text on the clipboard? > > Ugh! > > I switched from Windows to Linux in March 2001. In almost every > respect, I greatly prefer Linux. > > And then there's cut and paste. > > Windows has one single clipboard buffer. No matter how you copy to it, > and no matter how you paste from it, it works every time. > > Linux has (at least) two separate clipboard buffers. Sometimes one or > the other or both acquires text when you highlight. Sometimes one or > the other acquires when you highlight and Ctrl+C. Sometimes you have to > highlight and menu Edit->Copy: Sometimes Edit->Copy does different > things than Ctrl+C.
I actually prefer this behavior, although it caused me some confusion to begin with. The reason I like it is because I can have one thing stored in my clipboard and if I just want to do a quick copy/paste I can select something without it overwriting the clipboard. If you want them all to act as one clipboard, you can do that. For example, in CopyQ you can check the boxes - Store text selected using mouse - Paste mouse selection with clipboard and then I think it's basically like you have one clipboard. Scott
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