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Re: Disable X-Selection select=copy
On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 07:42:09AM +0300, Alon Altman wrote:
> Hi,
> Is there an option to disable the default X-selection behaviour of
> select=copy, and instead have some key on the keyboard/mouse do the copy
> (perhaps some unused microsoft key)?
In X, there's both a "selection" and a "clipboard". You usually copy to
the clipboard with a key such as Ctrl-Insert or Ctrl-C, or via a
context menu. So, middle mouse button is just an "insert the currently
selected text" - and you're free not to use it and to use the clipboard
instead all the time.
Of course, if some widget toolkit implements those concepts incorrectly,
then the widget toolkit is flawed.
How to disable "selection pasting" for text widgets? This might be
specific to each widget toolkit (it might not be configurable at all in
most of them).
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