xfce4-lipman question

[Manfred Lotz]

On Sun, 24 Feb 2019 19:46:10 +0100
Silvio Knizek <killermoehre at gmx.net> wrote:

> 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
> 

If you refer to 'Sync selections' this is enabled.

-- 
Manfred