TIL GNU/linux has 2 clipboards

mFat@lemdro.id to Linux@lemmy.ml – 204 points –

Pretty sure most of you already know this but for those who don't: you have two clipboards in Linux. One is the traditional clipboard where you copy with control c and paste with control v. The other one is when you highlight text and use the mouse middle click to paste text.

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How do middle-click-to-paste and middle-click-to-scroll conflict? In Firefox I can click-to-paste if the cursor is over an input field and click-to-scroll anywhere else. Never had any problem with this behavior.

How do middle-click-to-paste and middle-click-to-scroll conflict?

Some of us are clumsy.

That's not something I thought about. Good thing that you can disable the feature then