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> Selecting the specific destination text I want to overwrite blows away my previous selection. Oof, is this the normal Linux behavior? That sounds annoying. I
by losvedir 6y ago
> Selecting the specific destination text I want to overwrite blows away my previous selection.
Oof, is this the normal Linux behavior? That sounds annoying. In MacOS every app (or even tab) has its own separate highlight that it maintains. So in your example, selecting text in the browser would leave the terminal unaffected, and when you bring the terminal back to the foreground your text is still highlighted.
- alanbernstein 6y agoThe highlight doesn't vanish, the clipboard contents do, because that's global and it gets written on highlight.
- majewsky 6y agoNitpick: You're talking about the primary selection, not the clipboard. Those are two different distinct things.
- alanbernstein 6y agoIt doesn't surprise me to learn that at all, because I've been confused about having two clipboards in Linux. But I don't remember hearing the term "primary selection" - my interpretation of the behavior was that there are just two separate clipboards. I guess that's not accurate - why not?