Re: synaptic workalike that WILL run on sudo with wayland.

[Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org>]

On Sat, Dec 28, 2024 at 12:13:18 -0500, Lee wrote:
> Copy/paste is a requirement for me also.  If your terminal program
> doesn't do what you want, take a look at the current version of
> xfce4-terminal - that has most of what I was looking for.

One thing that *might* be relevant here is that X11 uses three separate
paste buffers, called "primary", "secondary" and "clipboard".  When
you attempt to paste something, depending on what application you're
pasting into and what *method* you're using to paste, you might be
pulling from a different paste buffer than you want.

Also, the application you're pasting *from* may have put the content
that you want to paste into a different buffer than you expected.

Your terminal (or other application being pasted into) may support
multiple methods of buffer selection.  For example,

    * Right mouse button: usually pastes from "primary".
    * Shift+Insert keys: usually pastes from "clipboard".

You can generally ignore "secondary".  I don't know of anything that
uses it.

If you install the xclip package, you can use that to see what's in
each paste buffer.

    xclip -o -selection {primary|secondary|clipboard} | less

You can also use it to "transfer" content to another paste buffer, if
you need that for your terminal/application.

    xclip -o -selection clipboard | xclip -i        # primary is default

I don't know anything about synaptic, and have no desire to learn it,
but if you're having trouble pasting content out of it, then perhaps
it's simply using the "wrong" paste buffer.

I also don't know anything about Wayland, so everything here might not
apply in Wayland.