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I have a Gnome desktop and I use the standard Terminal (gnome-terminal). I can middle-click paste text into the terminal but not when running Aptitude - a curses-based UI.

Just now, I realized that's Aptitude is actually click-able. In the terminal! That's probably related to the inability to middle-click paste.

I don't need click-ability but I need to paste via middle-click (e.g. into Aptitude's search field). How to achieve that?

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Have you tried right-clicking? – Daniel Beck Mar 22 '11 at 20:41
@Daniel, That works. But that will not save me time. I need the middle-click paste to work. – Aleksandr Levchuk Mar 22 '11 at 20:49
Have you tried Shift+click? – grawity Mar 22 '11 at 21:22
@grawity, you made my day :) – Aleksandr Levchuk Mar 23 '11 at 19:33
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  • Hold Shift when you right-click.

  • Or use Shift+Insert.

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You can use ctrl+shift+c and ctrl+shift+V to copy and paste in a few terminal emulators, such as gnome-terminal.

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Ctrl-Shift-V pastes from clipboard, while middle-click uses primary selection. – grawity Mar 23 '11 at 19:54
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