On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 8:13 AM, Ken Teh <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> On 06/27/2017 06:23 AM, Tom H wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 4:38 PM, ToddAndMargo <[log in to unmask]>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I have been using UNIX and Linux for over 25 years and did not
>>> realize X11 has four clipboards. I recently discovered the Secondary
>>> Selection keyboard.
>>>
>>> It really saves a bunch of time when I am programming as I don't
>>> lose my cursor's hot spot.
>>>
>>> Here is a great 8 minute video demonstrating all four clipboards. It
>>> is must learn for anyone using Linux.
>>>
>>> http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~chl/Secondary-Selection.mp4
>>>
>>> To support this clipboard, your program has to use the GTK Toolkit.
>>
>> Thanks. I didn't know about this secondary clipboard. I've just tried
>> it on my laptop running Ubuntu 17.10 but it didn't work. I suspect
>> that it's been deep-sixed in Gnome Shell and Unity.
>
> Haha. I've been on fedora for almost a year and learning to unlearn
> everything I've learnt about Unix and X11 over 25 years.

Everything changes all the time... The wayland developers had intended
to drop the primary selection but they've had to reverse course:

https://wiki.gnome.org/Initiatives/Wayland/PrimarySelection