How to Copy and Paste in Linux
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Okay, it sure seems like many many people I try helping with Linux stuff don't know how to properly copy and paste in Linux. This tutorial is very short and very sweet, and will clear the waters of any wrong ideas.

Firstly, find the text that you want to copy.

Highlight it with your mouse cursor just as you would any text.

The text is now placed onto the clipboard and is waiting to be pasted.

Find the place where you want to paste the text, and put the mouse cursor there.

Now press the middle mouse button. If you have a scroll wheel, press it, as it also acts as the third button. If you only have a two-button mouse, hopefully you have the third button emulation turned on. You would press both mouse buttons at the same time to emulate the third button.

Voila! The text is pasted!

An extra trick, for those of you who want to copy and paste URLs while surfing the web, is to simply copy your URL like normal. Then, instead of pasting it in the URL bar, just press the middle button on the current webpage. Don't click on a link though - find an empty space on the webpage to click on where there are no links. This will automatically tell the browser (most browsers anyhow) to go to that webpage.


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