[Discuss] cut & paste

[ron at bclug.ca (Ron)]

Kent Borg wrote on 2025-10-20 16:44:

> I think youngins don't know about middle mouse paste

It's one of the first features I show Windows users in a demo of the 
thousands of "paper cuts" that they suffer through that Linux solved ... 
decades ago.


> so it only happens 
> these days by accident when some library does it for free without 
> asking.

I think it's an Xorg thing, not an application thing?


> I have noticed that it does not seem to work in Firefox, at 
> least in /some/ circumstances.

Works reliably for me in Firefox, even when a single click in the URL 
bar highlights the entire URL, it does not invoke the X11 "copy" until I 
double-click to select.

Maybe we're experiencing different behaviours?


> Something like that might be part of what 
> is messing with you.

I wonder if Wayland is interfering with this critical feature? Does it 
(can it?) support this? I sure hope so.