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Is it just me, or has copy/paste from terminal to terminal, webbrowser to terminal, anything to terminal gone awry? I seem to recall being able to just copy/pas
by readingnews 4y ago
Is it just me, or has copy/paste from terminal to terminal, webbrowser to terminal, anything to terminal gone awry? I seem to recall being able to just copy/paste from dang near anything to my terminal in Linux. Now, it surely seems like its heads or tails, hit or miss, "works 50% of the time, all of the time" kind of deal.
Is it just me? I swear I see this on three different distros. Highlight in terminal/program X, paste to <pick any terminal>, and half the time it just does not work/gibberish/crash and burn.
- doubleunplussed 4y agoI wonder if it's something about you running on Wayland, and some terminals or programs are running under XWayland? Not sure if the two actually share the primary selection clipboard or whatever properly. I'm still under Xorg (running GNOME) for now, I'll move to Wayland when the benefits outweigh the costs, which I don't think is the case for me yet.
- readingnews 4y agoI do not run wayland on my distros. I am on Gentoo, Debian and Slack. AFAIK, none of them now use wayland (my Gentoo install is xorg and icewm, for example).
- glandium 4y agoDebian has been defaulting to wayland for a while, with e.g. Firefox still using X11 via xwayland.
- chrismorgan 4y agoClipboard integration works smoothly in XWayland.
- t-3 4y agoIt's the browsers using a different clipboard and being weird. There are some clipboard daemons you can use to unify everything and get nice menus from, but otherwise you have to find out when to middle click, when to shift-insert and when to (puke) ctrl-v.
- treve 4y agoReading this is a little wild, because I have been experiencing this for a while, but until this comment I thought I mussed have pressed the wrong keyboard buttons.