Pretty sure most of you already know this but for those who don’t: you have two clipboards in Linux. One is the traditional clipboard where you copy with control c and paste with control v. The other one is when you highlight text and use the mouse middle click to paste text.

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  • d3Xt3r@lemmy.nzM
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    1 year ago

    Is this applicable for Wayland as well? That link makes several references to X and its ecosystem of tools.

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      If I understand it correctly, Wayland only specifies a single clipboard but no primary. But most (all?) wayland compositors implement an additional protocol that’s also supported by the toolkits (gtk, qt, …) and programs like wl-clipboard.

      So yes, wayland also has clipboard + primary. But no secondary, as far as I found. Though I never used secondary on X anyway.