ux option for mouse copy-on-select/right-click-paste workflow
@techtonik
Submitted by anatoly techtonik Link to original bug (#739215)
Description
Two best terminal tools of Windows world - PuTTY and ConEmu provide this capability:
- mouse selection immediately copies to global clipboard
- right click pastes from global clipboard
This is quite popular question for gnome-terminal on Ubuntu: http://askubuntu.com/questions/211292/a-terminal-which-provides-select-to-copy-and-right-click-to-paste
It was already proposed several times:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=582969 - copy&paste like Putty "...WONTFIX, it conflicts with accessibility (right click should work like it does now)..." closed by Olav Vitters
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=558611 - Add option to auto-copy selected text "...Just use middle-click which will paste the selection." closed by Behdad Esfahbod
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=542228 - copy and paste in terminal window "...That's by design. Selection should not override what you have copied into clipboard. Please do not REOPEN." closed by Behdad Esfahbod
I am opening a new request, because:
- current right-click menu for gnome-terminal is useless and provides much less benefits for usability/ux than copy-on-selection/right-click workflow (YMMV)
- middle-click is a hack and it is rarely used on laptops (YMMV)
- ask ubuntu question was viewed 10536 times
However, I understand that strict Gnome accessibility guidelines unlikely to offer this capability be default, so I'd like to feature request this behavior as an option. gnome-tweak-tool is ok.
Version: git master
Resolution: RESOLVED WONTFIX