Rich, I have come across this with a few apps. When the mouse didn't work, Ctrl-v did work.
Vernon On Mon, Oct 7, 2019, 2:56 PM Rich Shepard <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
