xfce4-lipman question

[Manfred Lotz]

Hi Igor,

On Sun, 24 Feb 2019 12:55:30 -0500
Igor Zakharov <f2404 at yandex.ru> wrote:

> 24.02.2019, 12:49, "Manfred Lotz" <ml_news at posteo.de>:
> 
> > Hi there,
> > I tried out xfce4-clipman and noticed a strange behavior.
> > 
> > I go to a github repository. Then click on 'Click or Download" and
> > in the small window popping up I click the symbol to get the URL
> > into the clipboard.
> > 
> > The good:
> > 
> > - Now, the URL is in the clipboard
> > - In a libreoffice document I type Ctrl-C to paste the URL into the
> >   document which works fine
> > 
> > The bad:
> > - Clicking the mouse's middle-button and nothing happens.
> > 
> > 
> > How can I make the mouse's 'middle-button' function?
> > 
> > I should add that if I mark text with the mouse I easily can paste
> > using the middle-button.
> Hi Manfred,
>  
> In X, the "selection" and the "clipboard" buffers are separate.
> Meaning that normally the text that you select doesn't go into the
> "clipboard" buffer. Are you expecting xfce4-clipman to combine those
> buffers so that anything you select or copy to clipboard would appear
> in both buffers? Regards,

Yes, this is what I am expecting. I am a long time user of parcellite
which did this. However, parcellite doesn't support images.



-- 
Manfred