Copy / Paste in various situations

[Kir Kolyshkin]

Y. Makki wrote:

>Hello
>
>In my quest to better understand the inner workings of a Linux system,
>here it goes. It seems there's 2 independent 'copy/paste' systems, one
>which works by a highlight/middle click method, the other by the
>ctrl-c/ctrl-v (and the right-click copy/paste menus). Is there any info
>regarding this to help clarify how it works? Important question is, is
>there a way of combining those 2 systems, so as I could highlight to
>copy, then ctrl-v to paste?
>  
>
You can read about the X Window clipboard at
http://freedesktop.org/Standards/ClipboardsWiki
and/or at
http://www.jwz.org/doc/x-cut-and-paste.html