On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 06:07:31AM -0500, Haines Brown wrote:
> About the time I upgraded to Bwowulf I experienced periodic problems
> having the mouse pasting scanneted text with middle mouse button.
>
> I find that sometimes the mouse remembers scanned text but then is
> unable to paste it. The problem comes and goes with my wired mouse but
> is always present with my wireless mouse. It primarily occurs when
> copying text from a GUI application such as displayed by a browser and
> then pastting it into a text based application such as nano. But I
> find that I can (usually?) correct the problem by scanning and pasting
> a bit of text in nano and then do it with a GUI application.
>
> Anyone have any idea of what might be going on?

I wonder if your workflow is similar with wired and wireless mice.
Maybe you do something different, like closing the window in the
meantime?

This is important, because selecting text with mouse does NOT actually
copy the text! It is just selected. If you use middle button, then the
text is taken from original window and pasted into target.
Now, if you select text, then close the original window, the middle
button won't paste. There will be no original window to take the text
from.

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