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Comment by kevin_thibedeau | Hacker News Reader

It's not a Linux feature. It's an X11 feature that is super intuitive if you've been using it for 30 years. Wayland tried to remove it but it has been begrudgingly allowed because of it's incredible usefulness since it cuts out all keyboard interaction.

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Meanwhile I'm sitting here trying to cut out all my mouse interaction. I'm annoyed when I have to move my hand back to the mouse.

Of course that means I also don't have a horse in the "What should middle click do race".

> I'm annoyed when I have to move my hand back to the mouse.

You can bind a keyboard shortcut to a script that copies the primary to clipboard, then can use ctrl-v. Most apps also bind shift-insert to paste the paste buffer, so I bind shift-delete to this script, then to paste the primary it's just shift-delete then shift-insert. Here's the "script":

     xsel -p | xsel -i -b

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