I've a newly installed scientific reference database application (Zotera) that is not working properly on the Ryzen7 desktop running Slackware-14.2/x86_64. It is written in java (version unknown). When I highlight text in a PDF document and try to paste it into the appropriate data entry widget nothing happens.
This was the same issue I had with JabRef-4.3.1, but not with prior versions of JabRef (except that today version 3.8.2 refused to load while it worked just fine last Friday). That's why I decided to give Zotera a try. Over the years I've found it very useful to copy/paste titles, abstracts, and other text when entering new references. It's a PITA, especially with a long abstract, to re-keyboard the text. I don't understand why pasting using a mouse or trackball would fail on one or two applications while working just fine on other GUI applications. And there's never an issue when working in a virtual terminal. I'd like to learn from more experienced folks 1) why pasting can fail and whether this is a 'feature' of newer java versions and 2) how to overcome this limitation. Regards, Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
