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. 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. >