What a strange but useful feature I found on Ubuntu...

[Giant Speck]

This is probably old news, but I just recently discovered that if you highlight any text and then click in a text field with the center mouse button (if the scroll wheel on your mouse doubles as a button), it automatically pastes the highlighted text into the text field.

Sweet!

I love finding out things like this without asking people.

What strange but useful features have you found on Ubuntu that others might not know about?

[cardinals_fan]

This is probably old news, but I just recently discovered that if you highlight any text and then click in a text field with the center mouse button (if the scroll wheel on your mouse doubles as a button), it automatically pastes the highlighted text into the text field.

Sweet!

I love finding out things like this without asking people.

What strange but useful features have you found on Ubuntu that others might not know about?
This is a feature of X11. It will therefore work on almost any UNIX or UNIX-like OS. And it really is awesome :)

[cariboo]

Its been working for as long as I've used linux. I started with Redhat 6.0 Desktop. I use it all the time.

Jim

[keiichidono]

Yeah, I never got it to work the way I want though. Some notes: It's separate from your copy from keyboard cache so you can have two different ones. Use it wisely. :D

[kindofabuzz]

You can also select some text and drag it to the desktop and it will create a doc for you with that text.

[dracule]

I actually dont get what it does.

If i highlight NOTHING and accidentally press the right and left on my touchpad (laptop), then like the last 10 letters appear.


I deem it more of a nuisance than a benefit.

[indiana_crook]

This is probably old news, but I just recently discovered that if you highlight any text and then click in a text field with the center mouse button (if the scroll wheel on your mouse doubles as a button), it automatically pastes the highlighted text into the text field.

Sweet!

I love finding out things like this without asking people.

What strange but useful features have you found on Ubuntu that others might not know about?


WOW!!! I'm gonna use that all the time now.

[dhughes]

This is probably old news, but I just recently discovered that if you highlight any text and then click in a text field with the center mouse button (if the scroll wheel on your mouse doubles as a button), it automatically pastes the highlighted text into the text field.

Sweet!

I love finding out things like this without asking people.

What strange but useful features have you found on Ubuntu that others might not know about?

You can have two things copied and ready to paste, you can middle click to paste one thing and then CTRL+V or right click>paste for another.

Firefox also opens a new tab when you middle click the Home button, a link etc.

[bikeboy]

I felt the same way when I first discovered that feature. Even started a thread similar to this back then, quite a while ago.

I put together a list of some (http://www.vickersf.dyndns.org:8080/blog/2007/09/14/5-handy-gnome-xorg-tricks/) of these things at the time, with help from the forums.

[Pasto]

You can also select some text and drag it to the desktop and it will create a doc for you with that text.

Awesome! I wonder how I never noticed that.

[barbedsaber]

its really useful, until you need to use a windows machine, and you try and use it...

(GARRGH, WHY WON"T IT JUST CO.. oh, right...)

[darthmob]

nice to know!

[Elfy]

its really useful, until you need to use a windows machine, and you try and use it...

(GARRGH, WHY WON"T IT JUST CO.. oh, right...)

:lol: me too - I always forget

[quinnten83]

I've gotten used to the scale option in compiz.
now when i am on a windows machine,i keep trying to scale the windows by going to the upper right corner of my screen. Drives me insane that I can't do it.