Comment on I don't like the Linux clipboard situation
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 days agoUhh, so I’ve been on Xfce for a while, and I’ve never seen this. When did the madness start?
You mean into a GUI shell emulator, right? (I didn’t even know there was a clipboard that functions when not in a graphical session, otherwise)
PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 3 days ago
Correct. Go to github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy.git, click on “Code” and then the little “copy please” button next to the address of the .git URL, and then go to a terminal and middle-click. My money is on it not working if you haven’t set up some sort of special mojo for it to work. And, of course, there are things where the amount of text is large and not easy to find the end of quickly among the other boundaries between it and other things on the page…
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 days ago
Nope, that works fine for me. Do you hate this enough to switch?
PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 2 days ago
I mean it works for me now, see my comment where I talked about some of the unreasonably extensive configuration I had to do to make it work the way I wanted. At this point I have CLIPBOARD automatically synced to PRIMARY, so I can always copy something and then middle-click and I’ll get it. And I still have nice behavior that Linux generally makes possible (being able to copy and paste out of terminals even if I’m scrolling around on the thing within the terminal while I’m doing it). Now if someone can just teach Ubuntu what
xterm-kittyas the terminal setting means, when I have to ssh to an Ubuntu machine, I can finally be happy.