On 2015-10-07 12:24, ianseeks wrote:
Hi
Anyone know how to get copy and paste to work by highlighting text in a document with mouse and pasting it by clicking scroll wheel/middle button as the rest of the apps on the plasma desktop do? Firefox can be random at this too.
For clarification, a little history or explanation. There are two clipboards for copy-paste in Linux. One is the traditional X method, which only supports plain text, using only the mouse. Select with left click, paste with middle button. Then there is a more modern clipboard, similar to the MS-Windows clipboard: highlight with keyboard or mouse, then copy-paste with keyboard or menu. It depends on the involved applications, what they support, but typically you can paste images, tables, formatted text... sometimes it is possible to choose paste format. But this depends on what each application supports. And recently, we have clipboard managers in several desktops. But as far as I know, there is no defined standard in Linux for this type of copy-paste (contrary to Windows, which has it since version 3 at least). The problem you are seeing is that you are mixing both types of clipboards: some times it works, then after an update it doesn't. Or it works if you find the right combination of mouse and keyboard (try holding the shift key while you manipulate the mouse, for instance). -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)