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bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

😁 You’re just too late to Wayland. That’s all. Wayland’s lack of primary selection support actually kept me away for years. I like having two clipboards. One with longer lived content and one for immediate use.

Though I’ve now been disabled for quite a while and don’t use a mouse anymore. So I can’t see if there are any bugs.

I recall reading some of the debates on how to specify the support in Wayland and I remember someone bringing up the possibility of having an unlimited number of clipboard and making it the compositor/clipboard manager’s responsibility of juggling that. No idea what became of that.

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bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
And actually, if you count dragging and dropping, there are four clipboards.

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PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
What’s the logic behind it being better to have multiple clipboards, as opposed to having a single clipboard with accessible history?

I can kind of get how you might want to paste something from a longer-lived conceptual activity even if you highlighted something since then… but if you’re going to do the UI and API work to support multiple sources for the paste, why on earth should it be an arbitrary toolkit-driven decision, with no history, instead of a deliberate decision about which historical copy the user wants to paste out of all the recent copies? What advantage is gained by segregating into separate “clipboards” when we know that the great majority of apps are going to just pick one that’s their favorite and interact with only that one?

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