Version: 3.1.1a (using KDE 3.1.1) Installed from: compiled sources Compiler: gcc version 2.95.4 20020320 [FreeBSD] OS: FreeBSD (i386) release 4.8-STABLE There are several problem reports related to the copy/paste behaviour of KDE applications. My latest, easy to reproduce example may help identifying the problem. When selecting some text in xcoral -- the text editor favoured by one of my users -- the text can be pasted into xterm, but not into konqueror, nor into kedit, nor into konsole. My work-around is to go through xterm, but it is, of course. inconvenient... XCoral can be found at http://xcoral.free.fr/
You should be aware of the distinction that exists between the two so-called clipboards: PRIMARY and CLIPBOARD (I hope I'm using the correct terms). PRIMARY is the selection you make with the mouse or keyboard. CLIPBOARD is the data that is copied explicitly by a program command. You paste the contents of PRIMARY with the middle mouse button and you paste the contents of CLIPBOARD with an explicit command. In KDE applications, CLIPBOARD is accessed by the Edit menu commands Cut, Copy, Paste and their shortcuts, while access to PRIMARY is the text selection, as I mentioned. Having said that, it is very likely that your X applications are using one entity and you're trying to paste from the other in KDE applications. Please try running Klipper and verify if the contents get read when you copy from the X applications. Klipper can also synchronise the contents of both -- it's an option in its configuration. In all, I highly recommend running Klipper if you don't already. And I should note that I don't have any problems with copy/pasting in KDE, including the few pure X applications I use (notably, Emacs).
Hmm, tested it with CVS HEAD now... it's still reproduceable, even with klipper running. When you have marked text in xcoral you can paste it with the middle mouse button in xterm or xedit but not in KDE apps. If you cut/copy text in xcoral, you can't insert it neither in xterm nor in xedit and not in KDE apps... really strange...
*** Bug 60519 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I have used vmware several years and I remember faintly that paste from vmware to KDE would have worked with some earlier version of KDE (maybe 3.x.x that came with Mandrake 9.0). I have been too busy/lazy to complain this bug earlier, but it would be nice to see this bug fixed in KDE 3.2. I have used the following workaroung (pretty annoying): Copied the text in vmware and pasted it to gedit (with MMB). Then copied the text from gedit (with LMB) and pasted it to konsole or any other KDE application needed. Paste from vmware to Gnome (gtk) and other non-KDE (non qt?) applications works perfectly. Klipper is running. Copy/Paste from KDE to vmware does work. I use the following versions: VMware 3.2.1 build-2242 Mandrake 9.2 (KDE 3.1.3)
Copy&paste to or from xcoral works fine for me with KDE-3.2.2+Qt-3.3.1. Only MMB pasting, but that's because xcoral uses only selection. Assuming this has been fixed.
I don't know about pasting from xcoral to kde, but pasting from vmware to kde 3.2.1 using Ctrl-C in vmware/windows and MMB in kde still does not work. Pasting to e.g. xterm works. It makes no difference if klipper is running or not.