On 2023-01-21 02:35, Felix Miata wrote:
Marc Chamberlin composed on 2023-01-20 17:14 (UTC-0800):
I have no idea why or what causes the Cut/Copy and Paste to work in some cases and not in others. Any ideas?
Happens to me sometimes too. Annoying. At least I'm not the only one. :p When something won't accept a particular paste, I find someplace else that will, then copy from there to paste in the stubborn destination.
You must remember that in X there are two different copy paste mechanisms, and they can can interfere. Sometimes you have to press and hold the shift key. In applications like Thunderbird you have to select with the mouse, then hit ctrl-c to copy to the buffer. That activates Thunderbird own copy-paste, which you see in the menu and in _some_ compatible apps. If you don't hit ctrl-c, you are using the X own copy-paste mechanism. And then, the desktop may have its own ideas. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.4 x86_64 at Telcontar)