#Windows shortcuts and mouse actions windows#

The only consolation is that MacOS default terminal application, and a third party implementation, iTerm2, both automatically copy selected text into MacOS’s ONLY clipboard. I actually tried to make this work in MacOS, but it was so inconsistent, I gave up. in Gnome’s text editor, you can paste text selected from a terminal with the middle button, into the text document, but you can’t select text within that same gnome text editor, and middle-click paste it into the same document! It’s incredibly useful, my workflow suffers when it’s inconsistent (e.g.

#Windows shortcuts and mouse actions windows#

This is an old X Windows / X11 thing called “the X select buffer”… Nearly ALL old UNIX graphical workstations or X Terminals, had a three button mouse - middle button click will paste the text you selected somewhere else from the “x select buffer”. I looked around on the net but wasn´t able to find any answer that would suit my needs. I found out for me it might be practical in many cases to do pasting by employing a keyboard shortcut.

Or can such a keyboard shortcut be created somehow

So I won´t have to use the mouse wheel for that? Is there also a keyboard shortcut available for pasting For pasting in this case I just push the middle button (scrolling wheel) of the mouse. For this I only have to mark some text with the mouse. I also know it´s called “ default clipboard”.īut there´s also “ primary clipboard”.

I know I can copy any marked text with “ctrl + C” and paste it with “ctrl + V”. Basically my question refers to both systems. My main system is Linux Lite 6.2, which makes use of the xfce DE, but I also use Debian as a virtual machine which uses xfce as well. I´ve got a question regarding a special keyboard shortcut when using xfce4.