On 26/06/2017 06:15 πμ, J. Roeleveld wrote:
On June 26, 2017 3:19:49 AM GMT+02:00, Nikos Chantziaras <rea...@gmail.com>
wrote:
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Similar things happen with VMware. It seems that many applications do
not set the clipboard contents in a way that VB or VMw can recognize.
Never found a solution to this myself.
How do you try to copy/paste?
I find it only works when I explicitly use 'edit->copy' and 'edit->paste'. Or
CTRL-C and CTRL-V.
In other words, just like in MS Windows.
Selecting text and then pasting using the middle mouse button doesn't work.
Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V. In some applications it works, in some it doesn't.
I think there's several ways to set the clipboard in X. Some
applications do it correctly, some don't. Some desktop environments
interfere, some don't.
Sometimes the clipboard contents even disappear if you exit the
application you copied from. Start Google Chrome. Select the URL bar.
Press Ctrl+C. Quit Google Chrome. Try Ctrl+V somewhere. It's gone. The
clipboard content you just copied from Chrome is gone.
It's a good old huge big effing mess, as usual. The year of the Linux
desktop will probably be the one where the freakin' clipboard actually
works, because we still can't get it right in 2017.
/rant off
