On 9/28/20 4:47 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
On 2020-09-28 15:33, Samuel Sieb wrote:
> On 9/28/20 3:07 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
>> On 2020-09-28 12:10, Samuel Sieb wrote:
>>> On 9/28/20 4:24 AM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
>>>> The primary clipboard (select and middle click) did not
>>>> work either. RATS!
>>>>
>>>> I have not tried the other two clipboards because I can
>>>> never remember how to use them
>>>
>>> I've never heard of more than two.
>>
>> Here is a nice article on them. The article is on the
>> "The Secondary Selection" clipboard, but he video goes
>> into all four.
>>
>>
http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~lindsec/secondary-selection.html
>>
>> I do not know if they are all active in Weyland as
>> I am using Xfce
>
> As far as I can tell, he is somewhat confused. By default, Copy/Paste
> uses the primary selection and highlighting goes to the secondary
> selection. Some applications do work differently and there are tools
> to put content into each of those buffers. The only 4 I could find in
> the video was the list of ways to copy and paste text.
Oh they are all there. I have figured it out several
times but keep forgetting. But it is a bunch to take
in at once and I had to listen several times
If you figure it out again, then reply. But until then, there are only
2 selection buffers. :-)