It seems like for at least a decade every application/framework has had their own paste buffer, and honestly I’m surprised this isn’t “just working” out of the box by now.

  1. Open Terminal
  2. Run pwgen, double click one of the passwords.
  3. Middle click in Terminal, the copied password pastes just fine.
  4. Switch back to Chrome, CTRL-V into the password field.
  5. Realize 5 minutes later when you can’t login with the user you’ve just created, it’s because the content you pasted into the password field was an URL you copied in Chrome 15 minutes ago.

And don’t even get me started on vim/neovim having yet another copy/paste buffer.

  • @ik5pvx@lemmy.world
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    11 year ago

    You can set the touchpad to emulate third button by clicking left and right together. this setting is buried in the mouse configuration options and usually disabled by default.

    • @dlarge6510@lemm.ee
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      11 year ago

      Yes I have used that in the past but it’s way to finniky in operation as it sometimes registers a left or right click instead.