No option for "Copy to clipboard on selection".

Kresp · 2016-10-26 04:59:49

xfce4-terminal 0.8.0 only copies text you select with mouse to SELECTION area, and there is no option to also copy it to CLIPBOARD.
Is this a deliberate design choice or just has not been implemented yet?

ozjd · 2016-10-26 05:45:09

It should automatically appear on the clipboard, if it doesn't that sounds like a bug and you should report it at https://bugzilla.xfce.org/

Kresp · 2016-10-26 07:40:38

Text selection does not get copied to X clipboard.

ToZ · 2016-10-26 11:12:37

You can use a tool like autocutsel to synchronize the PRIMARY and CLIPBOARD cut buffers. If you use the clipman plugin, there is an option there as well to synchronize them (but the clipman plugin must be running).

Kresp · 2016-10-27 00:28:00

ToZ wrote:

You can use a tool like autocutsel to synchronize the PRIMARY and CLIPBOARD cut buffers.

Tried it. It will copy every selection in every application to clipboard as soon as your mark it. There is no whitelist to only do this on xfce4-terminal.

f2404 · 2016-10-27 06:15:09

ozjd wrote:

It should automatically appear on the clipboard, if it doesn't that sounds like a bug and you should report it at https://bugzilla.xfce.org/

Why do you think it should be automatically copied to the clipboard?
Text selection buffer is one thing, clipboard is a different one. There are shortcuts and menu actions to copy text to the clipboard in the terminal.

f2404 · 2016-10-27 06:18:33

Kresp wrote:

xfce4-terminal 0.8.0 only copies text you select with mouse to SELECTION area, and there is no option to also copy it to CLIPBOARD.
Is this a deliberate design choice or just has not been implemented yet?

No, there is no option to also copy selection to the clipboard, and I don't recall having such request.
Do you need it? Why don't use dedicated shortcuts?

Kresp · 2016-10-27 06:49:05

f2404 wrote:

Do you need it? Why don't use dedicated shortcuts?

Well. Only time I select anything with a mouse in a terminal window is when I need to copy selected text somewhere - to other terminal window, or to web browser for example. Pressing hotkeys in this situation is just redundant.

I think I will try to create patch to add this functionality as an option when I have some free time. Sounds trivial enough.
I'll share the patch if I actually ever get to this.

f2404 · 2016-10-27 07:15:10

Kresp wrote:

f2404 wrote:
Do you need it? Why don't use dedicated shortcuts?
Well. Only time I select anything with a mouse in a terminal window is when I need to copy selected text somewhere - to other terminal window, or to web browser for example. Pressing hotkeys in this situation is just redundant.
I think I will try to create patch to add this functionality as an option when I have some free time. Sounds trivial enough.
I'll share the patch if I actually ever get to this.

If you just need to copy a text from one app to another, you can normally paste it with middle mouse click. There's no need to use the clipboard in this scenario.

Patches are always welcome, however wink

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#1 2016-10-26 04:59:49

No option for "Copy to clipboard on selection".

#2 2016-10-26 05:45:09

Re: No option for "Copy to clipboard on selection".

#3 2016-10-26 07:40:38

Re: No option for "Copy to clipboard on selection".

#4 2016-10-26 11:12:37

Re: No option for "Copy to clipboard on selection".

#5 2016-10-27 00:28:00

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