Simple Copy and Paste for beginners

[Rudge]

For those from the Windows world, copy and paste is a 6 step process. Highlight the text, Right click, go down and click on copy, go to the place you want to paste, right click again and click on paste.

For us in the Linux world it is a three step process. Here is how you do it.

Highlight the text you want to copy, go to the place you want it pasted to and then click BOTH mouse buttons at once. Your highlighted text should now be pasted.    

[gseaman]

Nice tip for beginners. Thanks for posting it.

Galen

[plambi]

Nice tip!
Also works with pressing the second button - i.e. scroller

[Bald Brick]

Actually there's at least five ways of copying and pasting text it in Linux.

1. Rudge's Unix way: highlight and middle click (or highlight and click both buttons).
2. The old Windows way: Ctrl+Insert and Shift+Insert.
3. The Mac-inspired Windows way: Ctrl+c and Ctrl+v.
4. The newbie way: using the menus.
5. Using a program like Klipper in combination with any of the above.

2, 3 and 4 are sometimes useful if you want to replace text. If you want to change the word "foo" to the word "bar", you can't just higlight "bar", and then highlight "foo" and middleclick, because highlighting "foo" would change the copied text to "foo" and the middle click would have no visible effect. But you could highlicht "bar", hit Ctrl+c, highlight "foo", and hit Ctrl+v.