bamboomy
September 25th, 2009, 07:59 PM
Hi yall,
I got a question/request for feature for gnome but wanted to check whether it already exists or whether there is a reasonably simple way of achieving it.
Like most desktop users I quite regularly use the copy-paste 'feature' that is part of, well, every desktop environment I know actually. (others I don't call environments :p).
But I want to do something that would increase productivity:
You have two ways of copying in Linux,
* select something (without further ado) and middle click on the place where you want it to be pasted
* select something, press ctrl+c and paste with ctrl+v
I want a combination of both:
I'd like to just select something and then paste it where the (keyboard) cursor is at the destination.
Middle clicking has the disadvantage that you need to place the (mouse) cursor at the place where you want it to be pasted, which is, quite often inside a large text file, while it might be handy to paste where the keyboard cursor is at the moment. Middle clicking demands that, in that case, you go exactly where the keyboard cursor is and paste it there...
I guess I'd like to have a keyboard short-cut for pasting the content of the mouse clipboard.
any suggestions?
S.
I got a question/request for feature for gnome but wanted to check whether it already exists or whether there is a reasonably simple way of achieving it.
Like most desktop users I quite regularly use the copy-paste 'feature' that is part of, well, every desktop environment I know actually. (others I don't call environments :p).
But I want to do something that would increase productivity:
You have two ways of copying in Linux,
* select something (without further ado) and middle click on the place where you want it to be pasted
* select something, press ctrl+c and paste with ctrl+v
I want a combination of both:
I'd like to just select something and then paste it where the (keyboard) cursor is at the destination.
Middle clicking has the disadvantage that you need to place the (mouse) cursor at the place where you want it to be pasted, which is, quite often inside a large text file, while it might be handy to paste where the keyboard cursor is at the moment. Middle clicking demands that, in that case, you go exactly where the keyboard cursor is and paste it there...
I guess I'd like to have a keyboard short-cut for pasting the content of the mouse clipboard.
any suggestions?
S.