[SOLVED] remapping keyboard shortcut to paste primary X selection

i recently found out that the keyboard shortcut shift+ins can be used to paste the primary X selection. Where can i set a different shortcut to paste the selection? or do i have remap the desired combination to shift+ins?
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Last edited by ccc1 (2013-03-25 17:20:30)

Procyon wrote:Yeah it's not very solid, you could try xdotool key --clearmodifiers Shift+Insert, but I find that works less well, and also note that when the mouse is out of the text field, middle clicking doesn't paste either (same for pressing shift+insert when the mouse isn't over the terminal).
i already tried the "xdotool key Shift+Insert" variant and it is, as you said, pretty unreliable. one has to press the keyboard shortcut 5 times to paste. the most elegant solution would be of course to hack the X source code, but i have no idea where the shortcut is defined and if i want to recompile X everytime the version is bumped

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lolilolicon wrote:
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I cannot reproduce the errors from step 2. My system has the following packages:
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vim-runtime 7.3.206-1
rxvt-unicode 9.12-1
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[SOLVED] remapping keyboard shortcut to paste primary X selection

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