On 07/22/2015 01:35 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: > That must be using something other than the standard X11 clipboard > copy/paste mechnism. You shouldn't have to "right click copy", and > many of the apps I paste into don't even have a "right click paste". > > It sounds like evince has abandoned the trie-and true X11 clipboard > functionality that people have been using for 30 years.
Sadly, yes. Gnome has indeed pushed to abandon this. And the wayland display server also abandons this, though it practice it do so by pushing the implementation of such neat shortcuts into the toolkit instead of the windowing system, and if the recent past is any indication, GTK devs are not going to go out of their way to implement middle click paste. But perhaps someone will release patches to add it into the popular GUI toolkits. The Putty app on Windows implements this style of pasting in the app, as an example. I could be wrong but I think highlight and middle-click paste is a happy accident that became a feature in X. And there could be some application security implications surrounding it, which is part of the hesitancy of gnome developers, and wayland developers, to carry this feature. Though it seems to me Linux desktops are becoming more and more like Windows in the ways that drove me to really like X11 desktops. For example, client-side decorations always bugged me in Windows especially when an app would freeze and I couldn't move it. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
