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#1 2011-01-30 12:03:44
- axs
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middle-button-paste from keyboard?
Is there any way to do "middle-button paste" (aka "paste active selection") from keyboard? I use this feature extensively, but most of the time it involves an awkward double-button chord on my touchpad. Something similar to "*p in vim, but working X-wide.
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#2 2011-01-30 12:09:44
- Xappe
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Re: middle-button-paste from keyboard?
Quite often Shift-insert will do what you want.
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#3 2011-01-30 12:40:52
- Ramses de Norre
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Re: middle-button-paste from keyboard?
Parcellite is a daemon that can synchronize your "select-middle click" and "ctrl-c-ctrl-v" buffers, so you can e.g. select something and paste it with ctrl-v.
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#4 2011-01-30 14:50:31
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Re: middle-button-paste from keyboard?
Xappe: works in urxvt, great! Opera, FF and gimp (=gtk) seem to ignore it though.
Ramses de Norre: stumbled upon this idea before, but never tried it. Yeah, it may be a good solution. Reading parcellite man page right now.
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#5 2011-01-30 16:19:23
- Gusar
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Re: middle-button-paste from keyboard?
Install xdotool, then assign a keyboard combination to run 'xdotool click 2'
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