I am on Linux (Debian derivative) and this happens to me too often. In order for copy/paste to work, applications have to share information and metadata. On W

I am on Linux (Debian derivative) and this happens to me too often. In order for copy/paste to work, applications have to share information and metadata. On Windows/Win32 this is (was?) done by COM and related technologies. On Linux it is D-Bus. I think there are other interprocess mechanisms. I suppose that if an application have different assumptions than another, about what a request through the interprocess bus does mean, copy/pasting does not work.