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Shift+Ins vs. Middle Mouse Button (lemmy.ml)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Why is it, that some applications (namely Firefox and VSCode) seems to place the current selection into the buffer that is accessed with the middle Mouse Button and not the one accessed by Shift+ins, used anywhere else.

It seems usually selecting places the content into both buffers, but just not in platform ignorant builds…

This often breaks my work flow. Any idea on how to fix this?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

There's a bug open for Firefox and you can change VSCode's behavior by putting this in your keybindings.json:

{
    "key": "shift+insert",
    "command": "editor.action.selectionClipboardPaste",
    "when": "textInputFocus &amp;&amp; !editorReadonly"
}

Not sure why either of them are messing with a "standard" shortcut...
If you want a more system-wide solution there are utilities that let you sync the PRIMARY (on selection) and CLIPBOARD (Ctrl+c) buffers mentioned in the Arch Wiki entry.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Looked around some more - maybe it's because they're all GTK apps?
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/178070/why-does-shiftinsert-paste-from-clipboard-in-some-applications-and-primary-in-o