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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Copy and paste in KDE
From:       Erik Sigra <sigra () home ! se>
Date:       2002-02-27 18:33:29
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onsdagen den 27 februari 2002 19.18 skrev Christian Lavoie:
> There was a proposition some time ago, to change the behavior to something
> that would satisfy BOTH UNIX-like and Windows-like users.
>
> Fact is there are 3 X Window clipboards. SELECTION, PRIMARY, SECONDARY. The
> third one is just about never used.
>
> How about:
>
> Selection overwrites the SELECTION clipboard
> Ctrl-C overwrites both the SELECTION and PRIMARY clipboards
> Ctrl-V pastes from PRIMARY
> Mouse middle button pastes from SELECTION

and SELECTION should overwrite PRIMARY if PRIMARY is empty.
 
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