in reply to X11 pasting

What almut said, there's no "X11 default". All that X11 does is sending the application a mouse-down and a mouse-up event, which in many cases result in the application doing nothing at all. Also note that many application do whatever it would have done if you've typed 'abc' on the keyboard while whatever widget that contains the 'def' has the focus. But other applications do other things: if I select the "abc" in Firefox, and middle-click while hovering over "def", my Firefox loads the page http://abc.go.com.

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Re^2: X11 pasting
by Sewi (Friar) on Dec 29, 2009 at 12:39 UTC
    "X11 default" may be "something which is usually done by most X11 apps" - like Ctrl-C for copy-to-clipboard.

    Which one would be your favorite?

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      it might refer to the default copy buffer, if one isn't specified.... there are a couple of different buffers..... try running "xclip -h" for more info
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      Considering that it's X11 you're talking about, I don't think you should look at what applications do, as the behaviour of what happens often differs within the application: different widgets do different things. Take a simple Perl-Tk program using all the default bindings. Middle clicking after a selection will have different effects depending on whether you click on a button, a label or an entry widget.

      I've never used Padre (and I doubt I ever will), but AFAIK, Padre is a graphical application, and hence I'd expect different things to happen depending on where I middle-click.

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