On Saturday 12 August 2017, dep wrote:
| there's no doubt someplace this can be set, but i can't find it: just | now i sought to copy some text from kmail to a libreoffice document. | before the recent upgrade i would just select text in any application, | pick a place in any other application, right click, and voila, it would | be pasted. but no more.
sorry -- i meant center click.
| i can of course do this among tde applications, but not going to or | coming from other applications, such as firefox and libreoffice. i can | still right click on the selection, choose copy, then go to the document | i'm working on and select paste, and it works. but that interrupts the | flow. | | does anyone know what i need to do to restore the previous behavior? | | thanks!
I'm on TDE 14.0.4 release on Linux Mint. Mittle button paste forks from Libre Office to Kmail and vice versa without problems. I can remember that I sometime faced the problem that it did not work though.
Gerhard
said gerhard.zintel@mrs-thomas.de:
| I'm on TDE 14.0.4 release on Linux Mint. Mittle button paste forks from | Libre Office to Kmail and vice versa without problems. I can remember | that I sometime | faced the problem that it did not work though.
i'm on ubuntu 14.04 with tde 14.04, and it's not working at all. will paste among tde applications, but not between anything else and tde or vice-versa, and not between two non-tde applications, such as firefox to libreoffice. not sure where even to begin to find where to toggle it on to make it universal. i think it may in the foggy distant past been in /etc/XF86config, but from the filename alone you can tell how long it's been since it was an issue here . . .
On Sat, 12 Aug 2017 12:31:27 -0400 dep dep@drippingwithirony.com wrote:
said gerhard.zintel@mrs-thomas.de:
| I'm on TDE 14.0.4 release on Linux Mint. Mittle button paste forks from | Libre Office to Kmail and vice versa without problems. I can remember | that I sometime | faced the problem that it did not work though.
i'm on ubuntu 14.04 with tde 14.04, and it's not working at all. will paste among tde applications, but not between anything else and tde or vice-versa, and not between two non-tde applications, such as firefox to libreoffice. not sure where even to begin to find where to toggle it on to make it universal. i think it may in the foggy distant past been in /etc/XF86config, but from the filename alone you can tell how long it's been since it was an issue here . . . --
You need klipper running and set to sync selection and clipboard.
said Nick Koretsky:
| You need klipper running and set to sync selection and clipboard.
Well, that puzzles me, because I'm fairly certain I didn't have it running on my previous install and was running 14.04 atop ubuntu 12.04, and it worked as it always has. In fact, I've made a point of not running Klipper at all, because I've always found Klipper to be an answer in search of a solution. For as long as I've run Linux, which is 20 years, so it predates KDE 1.0 and Klipper (which wasn't in KDE 1.x at all), selected text is copied by a center (or both-button) click.
Until this install on my machine now. So I'm puzzled and a little alarmed to learn that Klipper must be running for the ordinary X-windows copy/paste function, which has worked since Looking Glass desktop on Caldera 1.2 (and other desktops of the time as well). I'm thinking there's something going on here, unless there's supposed to be a little stub of Klipper running invisibly all the time, in which case this is the first I've heard of it.
On Sat, 12 Aug 2017 22:03:20 -0400 dep dep@drippingwithirony.com wrote:
said Nick Koretsky:
| You need klipper running and set to sync selection and clipboard.
Well, that puzzles me, because I'm fairly certain I didn't have it running on my previous install and was running 14.04 atop ubuntu 12.04, and it worked as it always has. In fact, I've made a point of not running Klipper at all, because I've always found Klipper to be an answer in search of a solution. For as long as I've run Linux, which is 20 years, so it predates KDE 1.0 and Klipper (which wasn't in KDE 1.x at all), selected text is copied by a center (or both-button) click.
Until this install on my machine now. So I'm puzzled and a little alarmed to learn that Klipper must be running for the ordinary X-windows copy/paste function, which has worked since Looking Glass desktop on Caldera 1.2 (and other desktops of the time as well). I'm thinking there's something going on here, unless there's supposed to be a little stub of Klipper running invisibly all the time, in which case this is the first I've heard of it.
There are two different clipboards on linux, and applications may behave differently regarding them. The are dozens of apps that sync content of the two like klipper, so maybe you previous install was running some other.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/clipboard
BTW, according to this it is possible to disable middle click it GTK, so check that you are not using some GTK theme that did this.
https://standards.freedesktop.org/clipboards-spec/clipboards-0.1.txt
Not sure where the X config stuff is located, but certain behaviors are timeless.
Select>middle click paste works between apps here, TDE 14.0.5 & Debian Stable.
In Openoffice I use select> ctrl+c/x to copy/cut >ctrl+v to paste, Openoffice doesn't do select>paste, this keyboard method is my workflow.
Klipper config: I have "syncronize contents between selection and clipboard" selected..not sure how that syncs with the X stuff..to confusing for me .
Greg M On 08/12/2017 08:31 AM, dep wrote:
said gerhard.zintel@mrs-thomas.de:
| I'm on TDE 14.0.4 release on Linux Mint. Mittle button paste forks from | Libre Office to Kmail and vice versa without problems. I can remember | that I sometime | faced the problem that it did not work though.
i'm on ubuntu 14.04 with tde 14.04, and it's not working at all. will paste among tde applications, but not between anything else and tde or vice-versa, and not between two non-tde applications, such as firefox to libreoffice. not sure where even to begin to find where to toggle it on to make it universal. i think it may in the foggy distant past been in /etc/XF86config, but from the filename alone you can tell how long it's been since it was an issue here . . .
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