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I was just reading this thread... https://sh.itjust.works/post/23476261

...and it got me thinking about something that I've wanted for a long time. Why is it that keyboards have not evolved to have dedicated copy/paste keys left of the main board? I'd love to see an additional column of keys left of Esc->Ctrl configurable as macros at least. I do a lot of copy/paste for work. The current shortcuts arent terrible or anything but they're not exactly comfortable. I'd rather move my whole hand to the left for a macro key than contort to hit the current shortcut.

What do you think?

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

Not to be that guy, but on Linux if you highlight text you have already copied it to a different clipboard than the CTRL-C/V one, and can paste it by a middle click. This has been the default in Linux since before I used it (I'm 17 years in with Linux), but CTRL-C/V are so in my head that I usually forget to do it.

I was told that this would go away with Wayland, but I just tested it in a Plasma6 Wayland session and it clearly has not gone away.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

cool trick, works for me. Thanks for sharing

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I think that's because KDE has just reimplemented it to work on Wayland, but it's not there by default. This is a feature of X.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Hey, I'm also 17 years in, with Linux! I started with, I believe, Ubuntu 7.04 or 7.10, Feisty Fawn or Gutsy Gibbon, I can't remember which.

Which was your first distro?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I had been trying it for awhile off and on, but told myself I'd jump in with two feet when I could get wifi working with no troubleshooting. As you know wifi was rough back then sometimes, and I had absolutely no capability to troubleshoot linux. But I figured as long as I had reliable wifi, everything else was just a google away. Oddly, that was not Ubuntu (I probably also tried 7.04 - I expected Ubuntu to be what did it) - it was a now defunct slackware based distro called Zenwalk.

There needs to be a cool word for people who started with Linux in the same year lol. 🙂

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Cool stuff!

now defunct slackware based distro called Zenwalk

Seems to me like it's a very much alive project still?

There needs to be a cool word for people who started with Linux in the same year lol. 🙂

Yeah! How about:

  1. Linlings
  2. Liblings
  3. Linwins
  4. Lwins

This was hard...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Seems to me like it’s a very much alive project still?

It looked dead to me, but the domain still works etc so maybe I'm wrong. Last blog post looks to be a year old FWIW.

I think I like Linwins, despite the unintentional Windows reference there. 😁

This was hard…

You came up with better ones than I would have though. :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

😄 I personally like Linlings, I think... Anyway, thanks for sharing!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

The thing with Wayland is that it's not anymore built into the display server itself, like it was with X.org. So, this works on Plasma, because KDE implemented it themselves. On other Wayland compositors, this may not get implemented.

But yeah, we'll have to see. If there's a way to make it work for all wlroots-based compositors, that would give it pretty wide support, again.