KDE’s Konsole and the “selection” – when did they change their way of dealing with it?

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konsole
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/xterm
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_selection

I had used xterm for many years before KDE and Konsole showed up. In the X Window environment a few rules were always taken for granted:

• the (input) focus is always, where the mouse points
• you select text, and  it’s immediately in the copy+paste buffer
• you can paste text with “Control+Insert” or through pressing the middle mouse button

With KDE (and Gnome) things changed  — they adopted rules from the other worlds as the Mac, DOS and Windows.

So Konsole unlike xterm forced me to “Control+Shift+C” for  getting a text I  selected into the copy+paste buffer. I hated that. So for many years I preferred using xterm within the KDE world — I also did not appreciate the advantages of Konsole over xterm. Eventually I did. And I (sort of) got used to that bitter burden, that Konsole put on my shoulders 😆 .

Yesterday I saw somebody copying text from Konsole to another window — and  that was way too  fast in my eyes — he did not “Control+Shift+C” the text into the copy+paste buffer, and when I asked him, how he achieved that, he told me, it has always been like that. Alright. … . Maybe “his always” only started like 3 years ago — I wasn’t cheeky enough to ask. Trust me: I do like picking up new shortcuts and ways of achieving goals. But this one looked just too trivial not to know, and I felt a little ridiculous — and I certainly like to avoid that 🙄 So maybe somebody can answer that.