Standardized keyboard shortcut to paste PRIMARY?

Lubos Lunak l.lunak at suse.cz
Tue Feb 20 02:48:40 PST 2007


On Monday 19 of February 2007, James Cloos wrote:
> >>>>> "Thiago" == Thiago Macieira <thiago at kde.org> writes:
>
> Thiago> Because PRIMARY is a mouse-only thing. You set it with the
> Thiago> mouse and you paste it with the mouse too.
>
> No it most certainly is not.
>
> Shift-Ins is the standard key to paste PRIMARY, and Control-Ins is
> the standard key to copy something selected via the keyboard to
> PRIMARY.  And they have been the standard since late last century.
>
> There is no good reason to ignore that convention.
>
> SECONDARY, incdently, is to be pasted via Alt-Shift-Ins and copied
> to via Alt-Ctrl-Ins, to completely follow the standard.

 To follow which standard?

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