PRIMARY clipboard paste

[Sergey Vlasov]

On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 06:42:19PM +0200, Laszlo Papp wrote:
> 2010/9/23 Michal Nazarewicz <mina86 at tlen.pl>:
> > Laszlo Papp <djszapi at archlinux.us> writes:
> >
> >> You probably misunderstood me. Shift+insert works like a charm, but I
> >> cannot paste a text selected in other application by ctrl+c!
> >
> > Dunno if that will be enough for you, but you can use middle click.
> 
> Wut ? Please read again my previous mails... Try to understand the
> difference between shift+insert/middle button (selection copy) and
> ctrl+c/ctrl+v, copy/paste. They are handled differently in
> xserver........

Holding the Meta modifier (often the Alt key) down while pressing the
middle mouse button will insert text from the CLIPBOARD selection
instead of PRIMARY.  There does not seem to be a builtin way to
perform this operation without using the mouse (Shift+Insert behavior
is hardcoded to use the PRIMARY selection only).
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