On 1/20/23 18:50, David C. Rankin wrote:
On 1/20/23 19:51, Carlos E. R. wrote:
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.
The two buffers are:
1) copy buffer - normal ctrl+c goes there
2) select buffer - highlighted text is placed in the select-buffer and can be pasted with the middle-mouse-click.
(applications that use text highlight as part of the UI, like mc, require shift+select to place text in the select-buffer)
Additionally, with FF72 the copy behavior of the URL bar changed. Prior to FF72, clicking in the URL bar would highlight the URL and place it in the select-buffer automatically. From FF72 on, clicking the URL had no effect and ctrl+c was required to actually place the text in the copy-buffer.
This was an incredible PITA at first, but it did bring FF consistency across all desktops. Just remembering a ctrl+c was needed was quite painful after 20 years of click and middle-mouse-paste....
Thanks all for confirming that this Cut/Copy and Paste issue is a common problem and not unique to me. At least now I know that it is not due to some setting mistake I made somewhere. I have been using most of the workarounds suggested, which IS indeed a PITA! I don't know how to characterize this in a repeatable fashion, for a bug report, but I searched and found a similar bug report and added my 2 cents worth as a comment. https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1146018 Marc... -- *"The Truth is out there" - Spooky* *_ _ . . . . . . _ _ . _ _ _ _ . . . . _ . . . . _ _ . _ _ _ . . . . _ _ . _ . . _ . _ _ _ _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . * Computers: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the user Marc. His mission: to explore strange new hardware. To seek out new software and new applications. To boldly go where no Marc has gone before! (/This email is digitally signed and the OpenPGP electronic signature is added as an attachment. If you know how, you can use my public key to prove this email indeed came from me and has not been modified in transit. My public key, which can be used for sending encrypted email to me also, can be found at - https://keys.openpgp.org/search?q=marc@marcchamberlin.com or just ask me for it and I will send it to you as an attachment. If you don't understand all this geek speak, no worries, just ignore this explanation and ignore the OpenPGP signature key attached to this email (it will look like gibberish if you open it) and/or ask me to explain it further if you like./)