xfce4-lipman question

Silvio Knizek killermoehre at gmx.net
Sun Feb 24 19:46:10 CET 2019


Am Sonntag, den 24.02.2019, 19:11 +0100 schrieb 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.
Hi,

you can enable this feature in the plugin settings to share the
buffers. 
https://docs.xfce.org/panel-plugins/clipman/start#general_settings

BR



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