On 2023-01-22 18:31, Marc Chamberlin wrote:
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
What I described is not a bug. It is a feature. Two features, actually, which can conflict with one another at times. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.4 x86_64 at Telcontar)