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What is the difference between the X clipboards?
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Primary Secondary Clipboard Cut buffers What is the difference between these? Experimenting with xclip and gedit: Setting primary Nothing happens, as far as I can tell Setting secondary Again, as far as I can tell, does not affect gedit Setting clipboard in edit and context menu is disabled, but pr…
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In X11 terminology, there are many selections, but only one of them is called the clipboard. (Primary and secondary are the other two selections. Cut buffers are not selections; they're a different and obsolete mechanism) Clipboard & Primary The cli…
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