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Why is copy and paste so difficult for Linux to solve? (self.linux)

submitted 1 year ago by BaconIsAVeg to c/[email protected]

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It seems like for at least a decade every application/framework has had their own paste buffer, and honestly I'm surprised this isn't "just working" out of the box by now.

Open Terminal
Run pwgen, double click one of the passwords.
Middle click in Terminal, the copied password pastes just fine.
Switch back to Chrome, CTRL-V into the password field.
Realize 5 minutes later when you can't login with the user you've just created, it's because the content you pasted into the password field was an URL you copied in Chrome 15 minutes ago.

And don't even get me started on vim/neovim having yet another copy/paste buffer.

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[–] Hildegarde 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have an issue that clipboard content is application dependent.

So many times, I will open a program to find some text, Ctrl+C to add it to the clipboard, close that program because I'm done with it, switch to the second program, push Ctrl+V, nothing happens because closing the first program cleared the clipboard's content when closed.

Is this inherent to Linux, or could using something other than KDE fix it?

[–] colonial 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don't have any technical answers for you, but I'm on GNOME Wayland and I've never had any issues like that.