ubuntu 17.04: cut and paste middle mouse not working?

[Dave Stevens]

Quoting Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com>:

> On 6 May 2017 at 15:43, Peter Teuben <teuben at astro.umd.edu> wrote:
>> after a reboot it was fine again. sorry, false alarm. still a  
>> little worrysome. this laptop (X270) has been freezing a few times.  
>> worrysome.
>
> Run memtest from the boot menu. Leave it overnight.
>
>> I still feel that this cut and paste is a bug. If I select a new  
>> text in another window, it should override the buffer, there should  
>> only be one (unless you have that fancy app).  But I feel there are  
>> more. Perhaps related to my auto-focus/raise, perhaps different  
>> programs use different <META>-C and <META>-V for cut and paste, I  
>> don't know yet. It just keeps surprising me and is waisting time. I  
>> do see a fair amount of related discussions via google search.
>
> No. The clipboard is separate from the middle-click-to-paste.
>
> So, for instance, you can copy the title of a webpage -- select it,
> press Ctrl-C, placing the title in the system clipboard -- then select
> the URL.
>
> Go to a blank document in a text editor.
>
> Middle-click. The URL appears. Then press Ctrl-V. The title appears.
>
> 2 separate things.

Hi Liam,

I know about the two different things but on my Firefox 53 on Mint 18  
I can't select a browser window's title text. Was that just an example  
or can you do that? and how?

Dave

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