PRIMARY clipboard paste

[Laszlo Papp]

wow, great kthxbye

Best Regards,
Laszlo Papp

On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 7:36 PM, Sergey Vlasov <vsu at altlinux.ru> wrote:
> 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).
>