alt Hacker NewsIn Linux (Wayland) you can copy text from the terminal without pressing Ctrl+C at all. Just select the text. To paste it in another Window, press the middle mouse button.
This is called the Primary Selection and is separate from the Clipboard (Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V). IMO the Primary Selection is more convenient than the Clipboard.
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That's an X11 thing that Wayland had to reimplement because it's so convenient. The problem is when pasting into the terminal something that another program copied into the clipboard. That's ctrl-shift-c.
I thought about remapping copy and paste to their own keys, possibly a single one. Maybe on the number pad, which I never use. Or remapping ctrl-c.
Yeah I know. I missed this for the first couple days, but didn't take much before forgetting it after the change to Windows. (anyway I keep using Linux at home)
This is also a thing in X, not only Wayland.
Isn't this an X11-ism? I dont believe this is Wayland-specific