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If you're a normal desktop Linux user, it has probably been while since you thought about the X Window System. Modern distros let you configure your video card without ever touching xorg.conf, and by and large the window managers and GUI toolkits just work without getting in your way. But there is still one lingering pain point: the clipboard. Between most user apps, cut, copy and paste work without a hitch, but terminals, text editors like Emacs and Vim, and a few other stragglers refuse to cooperate. If that sounds familiar, consider checking out Parcellite.
I can't say I'm noticing any difficulties copy-pasting between editors (vim & gvim, gedit), xterms, and X apps (eg. web-browsers).
Come to think of it, what would that do to the familiar refrain, that it's easier to help someone with some copy/paste CLI commands, than to walk them through a highly-variable GUI interface?
And personally, I've found that having both "PRIMARY" and "CLIPBOARD" as separate copy/paste buffers, gives me sufficient flexibility that I haven't even bothered to install a clipboard utility since I first dropped Windows for Linux. If I did want a clipboard utility (I can see how it would be useful for both coding and "productivity" tasks) I'm not sure I'd want to eliminate the separation between the two buffers.
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Come to think of it, what would that do to the familiar refrain, that it's easier to help someone with some copy/paste CLI commands, than to walk them through a highly-variable GUI interface?
And personally, I've found that having both "PRIMARY" and "CLIPBOARD" as separate copy/paste buffers, gives me sufficient flexibility that I haven't even bothered to install a clipboard utility since I first dropped Windows for Linux. If I did want a clipboard utility (I can see how it would be useful for both coding and "productivity" tasks) I'm not sure I'd want to eliminate the separation between the two buffers.