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> I never realized there was a problem with clipboards on mainstream Linux desktops?

Highlight, middleclick, job done

Except that doesn't work sometimes on Gnome Terminal. I've never been able to pin down exactly what causes it to break, but I have some machines where I have to do the key combo to make the copy and paste work and it's really annoying. Also, annoying is if you highlight something, then hit ctrl-shift-v and it puts in the text from the other cut buffer.

But the GP might be referring to the fact that copy and paste with anything but straight text is an outright shitshow on X. Compare to the copy and paste facilities from even ancient MacOS 6 it's downright stone age.

This. The MacOS and Windows users have been missing on that powerful shortcut for years and now complain for a CTRL-SHIFT-C /V in terminal? Boohoo :)

That's the problem, I don't care about whatever they do, but when they remove stuff that the rest of us have been using for decades because windows doesn't do it, that is a problem.

Improvements shouldn't break things.

Tell that to the gnome team whose main design philosophy is to remove things people love then fight really hard to justify it.

I haven't used gnome since about 2000. Englightenment, IceWM, fluxbox, blackbox ring a bell, but it's been xfce for the last decade (well just the panel and the window manager)

Wasn't it right click?

I think that’s copy on some terminals, but I think the parent is talking about paste.

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