GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 582969
Feature requested: copy&paste like Putty
Last modified: 2009-05-18 17:11:43 UTC
I think it would be interesting a copy&paste method like Putty for Windows (sorry ;-) ). When you select a piece of text in the terminal, it gets copied, and if you right-button with mouse, copied text is pasted into terminal. Think about it, but don't tell anybody it's an idea based in a (free) Windows program ;-)
Actually, I think it's the other way around; Putty got it from somewhere. In Linux, if you select a text and then middle-click, the previous selection gets pasted.
Indeed, this already exists. Putty uses right click instead of middle click like on almost every X application.
My suggestion was about implementing the copy&paste feature in gnome-terminal, so people using putty won't feel strange when using gnome-terminal. I've not seen any way to set a keybinding like left or right mouse in gnome-terminal; the idea was to create a keybinding "select text" -- "copy text", "right click" -- "paste text". Always in gnome-terminal. Does this feature exists in gnome-terminal? Where?
I already explained: selecting = left click pasting = middle click But Linux (X) has 2 clipboards. One is specific for the selection. Another for other things. If you want this to work on right click, then it'll be WONTFIX, it conflicts with accessibility (right click should work like it does now).
I'm sorry, I did not understood your explanation. Thanks all for your comments