Re: [gentoo-user] keyboard copy paste

[Mike Kazantsev]

On Sun, 30 Aug 2009 11:13:02 -0500
Harry Putnam <reader@×××××××.com> wrote:

> Now I want to paste whats on the clipboard into an Xterm cmd line,
> without going to the mouse.
>
> I'm running recent Xfce4 desktop... but not finding a way to do this.
>
> Can I just steal whatever events happen when middle click on three
> button mouse and put them into a keyboard shortcut?
>
> How might I do that?

Shift+Ins is indeed a way, but not applicable in some cases (like
pasting into x-only app, say, field in a browser) and 'middle-mouse'
buffer is quite volatile, so I have a shortcut in wm (on Super+V)
which does this:

  xclip -out -selection primary | xclip -in -selection clipboard

After that, Ctrl+V will insert 'middle-mouse' stuff into any app.

Same xclip app is a great way to avoid the mouse (or touchpad) in many
cases, especially to copy-paste long command outputs - you just pipe it
into xclip (or it's alias w/ appropriate buffer pre-set) and paste where
it's needed.

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Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net