Mark Trickett via luv-main <[email protected]> writes: > Many thanks for your excellent posts, I am learning more. However I > have Debian 10, nominally up to date, and it has Wayland with Gnome as > the desktop. I am finding it very frustrating that I cannot copy and > paste to and from the XTerm window. I used to be able to do with > earlier terminal emulation under the XWindows system. I used it to be > able to copy text from a terminal into an email, and commands back > from email, ensuring that I did not make typos. I do understand that > there can be security issues if used without a measure of care and > thoughtful, but it also has much merit when coping with some of the > regular expressions that come up as examples in email and on web > pages.
Are you sure this is a Wayland issue? There are a lot of issues that constantly trick me with copy and paste under X. e.g. * Clipboard vs primary. https://www.jwz.org/doc/x-cut-and-paste.html * Copy text. Close source application. Open destination text. Past text. Text is gone because closing source application killed copy buffer. * Some text applications can have mouse support and "steal mouse" and do their own thing. For example, in vim sometimes I have to use shift click to mark or paste text. But now I try to reproduce this on demand and I can't ... go figure. Google says the config value is "set mouse=a" * Probably others I can't think of right now. I don't know what happens with these under Wayland. But in short copy and paste is complicated. I have not used Wayland yet. But only because I have been lazy. But I note that there is now a i3 tiling manager in Debian testing that looks like it would be worth trying: https://swaywm.org/ https://github.com/swaywm/sway For a more complete list of window managers under Wayland see https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wayland#Tiling -- Brian May <[email protected]> https://linuxpenguins.xyz/brian/ _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] https://lists.luv.asn.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luv-main
