Copy / Paste in various situations

david walcroft david_walcroft at yahoo.com.au
Sat Jan 24 21:53:54 UTC 2004


Y. Makki wrote:
> Hello
> 
> In my quest to better understand the inner workings of a Linux system,
> here it goes. It seems there's 2 independent 'copy/paste' systems, one
> which works by a highlight/middle click method, the other by the
> ctrl-c/ctrl-v (and the right-click copy/paste menus). Is there any info
> regarding this to help clarify how it works? Important question is, is
> there a way of combining those 2 systems, so as I could highlight to
> copy, then ctrl-v to paste?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> 
> 
I assume your using KDE: klipper icon in the toolbar >left click>help
should tell you.

Left click=copy
Middle click=paste

this is standard Unix

^c=copy
^v=paste

this is klipper

AFAIK you cannot combine the two

  david





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