I would like to have a way to insert the PRIMARY selection into a GtkEntry/GtkTextView using only the keyboard. I commonly use a laptop that only has two buttons, and trying to press them simultaneously can be difficult at times. I think most terminal applications will paste the PRIMARY selection when the user presses Shift-Insert, however GTK+ inserts the CLIPBOARD instead. I know inserting CLIPBOARD is consistent with Win32 and with some ideas about of how X11 is supposed to work [1], but it's also makes GTK+ applications inconsistent with most terminal applications. Anyway, I was wondering if the GTK+ developers would be open to making the selection used by Shift-Insert configurable? I'll volunteer to write the code, but I don't want too if it's going to get rejected right off. [1] http://standards.freedesktop.org/clipboards-spec/clipboards-0.1.txt
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