You must be joking [LWN.net]

You must be joking

Posted Nov 8, 2010 15:43 UTC (Mon) by foom (subscriber, #14868)
In reply to: You must be joking by mfedyk
Parent article: LPC: Life after X

If you're using the menus to copy&paste on other platforms, you're doing it wrong. Use the keyboard shortcuts...

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You must be joking

Posted Nov 8, 2010 21:39 UTC (Mon) by mfedyk (guest, #55303) [Link] (1 responses)

> If you're using the menus to copy&paste on other platforms, you're doing it wrong. Use the keyboard shortcuts...

Note the "with just the mouse" part...

I use the CLI all the time, but sometimes I don't have a free hand to reach for the keyboard (using screwdriver, using someone else's computer to instruct them, etc.) and just want to do something quickly with the mouse only.

Mouse selection and middle click paste

Posted Nov 11, 2010 16:10 UTC (Thu) by cdmiller (guest, #2813) [Link]

I too use the mouse selection/paste extensively day to day. In fact it is seen as a "killer feature" by many folks when I'm convincing them to try a Linux desktop. Occasionally an application intentionally break this functionality. I remove those from my desktop and our computer labs whenever possible...