On Thu, 23 Nov 2023 14:03:14 -0600
Ranjan Maitra via users <users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
Hi,
I know this is OT, but someone here might know the answer to this.
So, I like the ability to highlight with my mouse left button, and
paste with my middle (scroll) button. It works on `xterm` but not
necessarily on my firefox window (some other windows too, but I do
not recall now). Is there a way to set this up so that it can work
reliably on every window?
Thanks for asking about this. I have also noticed this, but have just
lived with it. This still works in virtual consoles. I tend to edit
there because of that. I can just double click, on something I want to
put in, and center click to paste at the cursor.
The one I notice with this problem is claws mail. It used to work the
way I describe above, and then it just stopped doing that. Now it needs
a Ctrl-C to copy the highlighted text, then move to the cursor location,
and then paste with Ctrl-V. I have also noticed that some applications
(Pan?) give no time to cut anymore, but used to work just fine.
I don't know how to track down the problem. I'm using X, is this a
consequence of substituting XWayland for X? Wayland is missing obscure
corner cases that worked in X, I think, and I wonder if this could be
one of them. A side effect of enhanced security of some kind? It sure
is annoying.