[ltp] cut-and-paste

Richard Neill linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Fri, 31 Mar 2006 21:58:39 +0100


Dominik Riebeling wrote:
> On 3/31/06, Timothy Murphy <tim@birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie> wrote:
> 
>>What is the simplest way to cut-and-paste on this machine?
> 

>>With another computer, and Fedora-4,
>>the most recently highlighted item
>>was automatically chosed (ticked) by Klipper,
> 
> 
> I believe this is a klipper setting. I guess it's the "Synchronize
> contents of the clipboard and the selection". Haven't tried.
> 
Yes - this is what you want to do, and, it isn't the default.

There are, I guess, some advantages to having 2 clipboards, one
controlled by select/middle_click; the other by Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V. But it
requires mental gynmastics!

Ctrl-Alt-V is good too.

Richard