I’ve been using Linux since RedHat 4.2, and for a number of years in the early 2000’s as a desktop. Since then it’s mainly been as a server, and I just recently got back into running it as a primary desktop.

The “it’s always been that way” argument is stupid and you should know better.

Yes this makes sense. I’ve been using terminals for years with the ‘copy on highlight’ feature enabled, and I’m pretty sure when I was on OSX it was a single buffer.

I can see how having mouse selected text end up in the buffer on a non-Terminal app would probably not be the desired behavior.

I found ‘autocutsel’ which will keep PRIMARY and CLIPBOARD in sync, however Gnome Terminal doesn’t seem to support ‘copy on highlight’ while Terminator does.