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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  • ChristianWS@lemmy.eco.br
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    1 year ago

    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
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      1 year ago

      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
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        1 year ago

        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
    • melvin@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      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