In Firefox, is there a shortcut to paste the content of the X buffer directly into the search box?
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In particular when programming, it's handy to post error messages in Firefox' search box, to see what Google has to say on the matter :) On linux and particularly X11, it's even more handy since you only have to select some text to put in the X buffer, to later paste it with the middle button. Unfo…
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I believe this is a workaround for your problem. Use this command as a new keyboard shortcut: This was tested on Ubuntu 9.04 after installing the xsel package. The keyboard shortcut was added to the Gnome environment via the tool Keyboard Shortcuts …
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