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gnome-terminal package

  1. Bug #1726439
  2. Comment #7

Comment 7 for bug 1726439

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Dan Watkins (oddbloke) wrote : Re: [Bug 1726439] Re: Link copied with "Copy Link Address" cannot be pasted with Shift-Insert

On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 08:09:04PM -0000, Egmont Koblinger wrote:
> Linux desktop has two copy-paste buffers, the Primary (aka. Selection)
> [usually selected with the mouse and inserted with middle clicking or
> Shift+Insert] and the Clipboard [usually Ctrl+C Ctrl+V, but also "Copy",
> "Paste" and similar menu entries].
>
> It sucks big time that Linux desktop couldn't overcome this in the past
> few decades and unify to have only one.
>
> But in the mean time you shouldn't mix the two methods and expect to
> work. It might work here and there, but don't expect it to work
> everywhere. It's not gnome-terminal to blame, but the entire Linux
> desktop world.
>
> Use either of them, but only of the two methods at a time.
>
> gnome-terminal's "Copy Link Address" right-click menu item copies to the
> Clipboard, while Shift+Insert pastes Primary.

Shift-Insert pastes the link pulled from the "Copy Link Address" in to
both Google Chrome (as installed from upstream) and in to gedit (another
GNOME application). gnome-terminal is inconsistent in this regard.

Furthermore, until I upgraded to artful and started using GNOME
Shell/Wayland, it _did_ work. So gnome-terminal (on Ubuntu) has also
regressed.