Mark Trickett via luv-main <luv-main@luv.asn.au> 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 <brian@linuxpenguins.xyz> https://linuxpenguins.xyz/brian/