On 2024-05-15, Michael wrote: > > There are 3 'cliboards', known as selections, I know of: > > 1. Primary - you select some text by holding down your left mouse button (or > Shift+arrow) and you paste it with your middle button (or Shift+Insert - > depending on application). > > 2. Secondary - some applications will autoselect text, e.g. when you click in > the non-empty address bar of a browser. This can replace any selection you > had in the Primary selection. It depends on the particular application. > > 3. Clipboard - this is the Ctrl+x/c/v MSWindows style of cut/copy/paste menu > items. > > More details can be found in the spec here: > > https://specifications.freedesktop.org/clipboards-spec/clipboards-latest.txt
There's also this one: https://www.jwz.org/doc/x-cut-and-paste.html Which mentions the support for different targets, also mentioned in: https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2018/10/07/further-fun-with-the-clipboard/ (xclip can be used for targets too, "xclip -o -target TARGETS" for a list of the currently available targets) > As far as I know the Primary selection is not stored anywhere - other than > within the application's memory space where the range of characters have been > selected. The xserver will call for this when you middle click to paste it > on > another application's window. > > The Clipboard may be stored in RAM or cache of any applications which use > this > method. -- Nuno Silva
