Copying into clipboard

[Frank Bures]

Kevin Krammer wrote:
> On Tuesday 27 May 2008, Frank Bures wrote:
> 
>> Older versions and other desktop products for different OS's would require
>> some action before committing highlighted text to the clipboard.
>> Not so KDE 3.5.  It is very easy to rewrite desired clipboard content just
>> by deleting something else or unintentionally moving the mouse when
>> switching windows.

>> Example: I highlight the desired text in one window.  The text gets
>> automatically copied into the clipboard.  When switching to another window
>> the mouse is positioned over the text there and if I move the mouse ever so
>> slightly when still holding down the left button, the clipboard gets
>> overwritten.
> 
> It should only overwrite the selection buffer (which can be pasted using the 
> middle mouse button), but it should not overwrite the clipboard buffer which 
> can be pasted using the common actions, e.g. menu, CTRL+V, etc.

Yes, I get it.  However, I would like it to behave in such a way that it 
would NOT overwrite the selection buffer without some kind of confirmation.

Another example:
When using two button mouse in the old days, one had to highlight the text 
with left button and then while holding the left button click the right 
button, which would activate the copying into selection buffer.  In that 
case there was no way to accidentally overwrite the selection buffer with junk.
Before I got accustomed to direct copying (with no activation action) my 
common mistake would be when copying a URL into Firefox to just highlight 
the old URL in the Firefox URL window, pres <Del> and paste the selection 
buffer in there.  Of course, the selection buffer had been overwritten with 
the result of the delete in the URL field, so it did not contain my 
original copied URL anymore.
I know there are ways around it, but an accidental overwriting of the 
selection buffer still happens from time to time and it is _annoying_.

So, back to my question:

Is it possible to make the action of copying into selection buffer 
dependent on some kind of confirmation?  A click of a button perhaps?

Thanks
Frank


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