ubuntu 17.04: cut and paste middle mouse not working?

[Petter Adsen]

On 04/05/17 16:28, Nils Kassube wrote:
> Peter Teuben wrote:
>> With the new Ubuntu 17.04 I don't seem to be able to do the classic
>> "left mouse select and copy- middle mouse paste" action. I looked for
>> an options, but found nothing,.
> 
> As I don't have 17.04, I can't confirm / reject your observation, but I 
> remember I had the same problem several years ago. The problem was the 
> mouse where the middle button no longer worked reliably. Did you try it 
> with another mouse?

I do have 17.04, and it works fine here.

>> Many apps have <magic>-C and <magic>-V for this, but it's not
>> consistent. Especially when you go across apps, the mouse based cut
>> and paste is very useful and efficient. This would have a major
>> impact on - certainly my - efficiency.
> 
> To my understanding there are two buffers - one is for pasting with the 
> middle button of the mouse and the other one for pasting with Ctrl-V. So 
> you could select one text, use CTRL-C to copy to the first buffer and 
> then select another text. You can then paste the second text with the 
> middle button of the mouse and later paste the first text (e.g. at 
> another location) with CTRL-V.

There are also small applications like clipit that lives in your systray
and syncs the two so you can copy/paste however you like consistently.
It also offers a few other nice features, like a history of the last few
selections etc.

Petter