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I'm just amazed how we have two clipboards when I use Linux. Like we can't decide something so stupidly simple.
by mcny 9y ago
I'm just amazed how we have two clipboards when I use Linux. Like we can't decide something so stupidly simple.
- andrew3726 9y agoWell, that's been fixed with Wayland, right?
- jwilk 9y agoHow?
- pjmlp 9y agoYou just have one. https://wiki.gnome.org/Initiatives/Wayland/PrimarySelection https://wiki.gnome.org/Initiatives/Wayland/PrimarySelection
- cesarb 9y agoI'm running on Wayland at this moment (Gnome 3 on Fedora), and just tested on the terminal. It has two: I can copy something with Ctrl-Shift-C, then select something else, then paste with Ctrl-Shift-V, then paste with middle-click; the selection didn't override what I had copied, and middle-click pasted what was selected. So you still have two, at least with Gnome 3 on Wayland.
- mkl 9y agoThe two different clipboards are fantastic! Select then middle click is one of the things I miss most on Windows, and it's really convenient that that preserves the copy-paste clipboard.
- mcny 9y agoReminds me of https://xkcd.com/1172/ https://xkcd.com/1172/ I am so glad to hear they are fixing this in wayland and there will be only one clipboard by default going forward.