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Ubuntu: Copy terminal mouse selection automatically to clipboard for other apps?
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Mar 15, 20265315 viewsConfidence Score0%
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I can use keyboard shortcuts and selecting text with the left mouse button allows me to insert the selection within gnome-terminal with the middle mouse button. However, mouse selection with left button does not copy it to the clipboard and thus is not available to other apps. I don't want to use t…
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Fix for: Ubuntu: Copy terminal mouse selection automatically to clipboard for other apps?
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X and GTK+ maintain their own clipboards, which is why selecting text the X way does not automatically dump the selected text into the GTK+ clipboard. gClip can be used to bridge the two.
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