Comment by giancarlostoro
3 days ago
I am at a point where I don't know which is which, and why and who, but it drives me up a wall when I go to paste something, and somehow its in my mouse wheel instead of ctrl + v when I go to the terminal, or worse, I highlight text, and somehow its now copied. Or things just don't copy whatsoever when I hit ctrl + c, because either I ctrl + c'd on Discord / Teams and it copied the empty text input box and overrode my copied stuff, or who knows what. WHY IS COPY AND PASTE BROKEN IN 2026.
I've been in hundreds of meetings, watching someone highlight something, copy it with the mouse, then go over to Teams and they somehow LOSE what they copied. Hundreds of calls like this.
If you work at Discord or Microsoft stop replacing my keyboard contents if the text input field is EMPTY because I accidentally hit Ctrl C before I got to hit Ctrl V.
Normal clipboard and selection "clipboard" (i.e. primary selection) are two separate boxes. Some apps (totally wrongfully IMO) override both when copying (example: Firefox's Web Developer Tools (e.g. copy element's innerHTML) but weirdly not the browser itself)
> WHY IS COPY AND PASTE BROKEN IN 2026.
I believe your experience, but I'm quite amazed: I have been using the selection clipboard all the time for 15 years, and I never had such issues.
That might be the key, if you just use the mouse for the whole thing, it works fine. It's hard to fight muscle memory though plus ctrl c + ctrl v worked fine for decades.
It can be confusing, but I reason it still saves time.
I would not want to use Linux without middle mouse button paste feature. Even if it is an xorg-ism.
I'm pretty sure I'm on Wayland on Arch with KDE, but I could be wrong?