[SOLVED] Unable to copy and paste
Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2019 6:20 pm
I just discovered the inability to copy and paste in LXDE. Running Fedora Linux 29.
Due to video-related issues, I have disabled hardware acceleratiom for the nouveau driver at system boot-up, this also made it necessary to remove two other desktop environments on the computer, as with hardware acceleration enabled, X would crash if attempting to login in with either of those desktop environments. The remaining desktop environments installed are LXDE, LXQt and KDE Plasma.
What happens is, for example, if I am in LXTerminal and highlight some text, once I move the mouse pointer off of the active terminal window, the highlighting immediately disappears. What also occurs, is if I copy a link/URL or text on a web page, open a new browser tab, then attempt to paste the text or link/URL in the address bar on the new tab or in the search field, both Paste and Paste and Go are grayed out on the right-click menu.
I cannot see how disabling the hardware acceleration would cause this behavior. If I re-enable it, I will then not be able to use KDE Plasma. Copy and paste works fine with LXQt and KDE Plasma.
Is there any possible explanation as to why copy and paste isn't working now? Thank you in advance for any responses.
Due to video-related issues, I have disabled hardware acceleratiom for the nouveau driver at system boot-up, this also made it necessary to remove two other desktop environments on the computer, as with hardware acceleration enabled, X would crash if attempting to login in with either of those desktop environments. The remaining desktop environments installed are LXDE, LXQt and KDE Plasma.
What happens is, for example, if I am in LXTerminal and highlight some text, once I move the mouse pointer off of the active terminal window, the highlighting immediately disappears. What also occurs, is if I copy a link/URL or text on a web page, open a new browser tab, then attempt to paste the text or link/URL in the address bar on the new tab or in the search field, both Paste and Paste and Go are grayed out on the right-click menu.
I cannot see how disabling the hardware acceleration would cause this behavior. If I re-enable it, I will then not be able to use KDE Plasma. Copy and paste works fine with LXQt and KDE Plasma.
Is there any possible explanation as to why copy and paste isn't working now? Thank you in advance for any responses.