[arch-general] Xfce4 cut and paste problems
Evening all . Long time no post (long time no linux ) having had some health problems i am now getting back into sorting this machine out (it went bang some time ago and has been completely rebuilt Installed my favorite distro Arch Linux but found i could not get on with the new incarnation of KDE plasma 5 so installed Xfce4 which is fine quick apart from the cut & paste issues i have tried everything i have read on the Wiki and anything else i can find to no effect can someone please give me a few pointers to fix this one issue that is a big problem for me Thanks in advance a now somewhat healthier Pete .
On Thu, 21 Apr 2016 22:10:13 +0100, pete nikolic wrote:
installed Xfce4 which is fine quick apart from the cut & paste issues
Hi Pete, what sort of cut & paste issue? Text? Copying items when using Xfce's file manager Thunar? Doesn't it work, when using the mouse, when using short cuts or are you missing a clipboard or something completely different? Is this issue related to all or just some apps, if so which apps? Regards, Ralf
On Thu, 21 Apr 2016 23:25:04 +0200 Ralf Mardorf <silver.bullet@zoho.com> wrote:
On Thu, 21 Apr 2016 22:10:13 +0100, pete nikolic wrote:
installed Xfce4 which is fine quick apart from the cut & paste issues
Hi Pete,
what sort of cut & paste issue? Text? Copying items when using Xfce's file manager Thunar?
Doesn't it work, when using the mouse, when using short cuts or are you missing a clipboard or something completely different?
Is this issue related to all or just some apps, if so which apps?
Regards, Ralf
Hi Ralf . I cant get a thing out of it no C&P at all in thunar in terminals or nothing no text copy or paste not a thing it's got me stumped right now . It is the mouse i am more interested in than anything else for c&p . Pete
On Thu, 21 Apr 2016 22:35:07 +0100, pete nikolic wrote:
I cant get a thing out of it no C&P at all [snip] It is the mouse i am more interested in than anything else for c&p .
You try to copy and paste by right click menu or by third mouse button or something else?
On Thu, 21 Apr 2016 23:55:09 +0200 Ralf Mardorf <silver.bullet@zoho.com> wrote:
On Thu, 21 Apr 2016 22:35:07 +0100, pete nikolic wrote:
I cant get a thing out of it no C&P at all [snip] It is the mouse i am more interested in than anything else for c&p .
You try to copy and paste by right click menu or by third mouse button or something else?
Hi . I have tried right click i have tried how it used to work in the previous install which was grab holding left mouse down to copy and right button for paste i have noticed that in this (claws mail ) c&p works via the right click menu for paste but not into a terminal or from a terminal , and that is one of the more important things for me to and from terminal .. Thanks Pete .
On Thu, 21 Apr 2016 23:07:16 +0100, pete nikolic wrote:
i have noticed that in this (claws mail ) c&p works via the right click menu for paste but not into a terminal or from a terminal
If it's related to applications, you could test replacements. I anyway would replace xfce4-terminal by roxterm. Perhaps you should send a request to https://mail.xfce.org/mailman/listinfo/xfce. I dropped Xfce4 a long time ago and switched to openbox, but still follow the mailing list. Consider to follow the xfce mailing list too, since there seemingly was and perhaps still is a serious Thunar issue, that is related to a copy option and could cause loss of files.
On Fri, 22 Apr 2016 09:56:20 +0200 Ralf Mardorf <silver.bullet@zoho.com> wrote:
On Thu, 21 Apr 2016 23:07:16 +0100, pete nikolic wrote:
i have noticed that in this (claws mail ) c&p works via the right click menu for paste but not into a terminal or from a terminal
If it's related to applications, you could test replacements. I anyway would replace xfce4-terminal by roxterm.
Perhaps you should send a request to https://mail.xfce.org/mailman/listinfo/xfce.
I dropped Xfce4 a long time ago and switched to openbox, but still follow the mailing list. Consider to follow the xfce mailing list too, since there seemingly was and perhaps still is a serious Thunar issue, that is related to a copy option and could cause loss of files.
Hi Ralf Ok on switching to Openbox i will have a look at that . I knew of the >1tb external drive problem with thunar . Thanks Pete ..
On Fri, 22 Apr 2016 19:29:43 +0100 pete nikolic <pg.nikolic1@gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, 22 Apr 2016 09:56:20 +0200 Ralf Mardorf <silver.bullet@zoho.com> wrote:
On Thu, 21 Apr 2016 23:07:16 +0100, pete nikolic wrote:
i have noticed that in this (claws mail ) c&p works via the right click menu for paste but not into a terminal or from a terminal
If it's related to applications, you could test replacements. I anyway would replace xfce4-terminal by roxterm.
Perhaps you should send a request to https://mail.xfce.org/mailman/listinfo/xfce.
I dropped Xfce4 a long time ago and switched to openbox, but still follow the mailing list. Consider to follow the xfce mailing list too, since there seemingly was and perhaps still is a serious Thunar issue, that is related to a copy option and could cause loss of files.
Hi Ralf
Ok on switching to Openbox i will have a look at that .
I knew of the >1tb external drive problem with thunar .
Thanks Pete ..
Right An update . Now got full cut & paste working from and to terminal and applications browser ect it is down to "etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf" Also on KDE Plasma now working quite well but it does totally lock up and need the power pulling now and then but will start another thread on this when i can start to tie it down Pete .
participants (2)
-
pete nikolic
-
Ralf Mardorf