TIL GNU/linux has 2 clipboards - eviltoast

Pretty sure most of you already know this but for those who don’t: you have two clipboards in Linux. One is the traditional clipboard where you copy with control c and paste with control v. The other one is when you highlight text and use the mouse middle click to paste text.

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  • merthyr1831@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Oh, that explains why my steamdeck layout randomly pastes text when I’m trying to use a mmb shortcut on my dang browser