Questions tagged [copy-and-paste]
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copy/paste between different programs stops working under Ubuntu 21.04
My OS:
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 21.04
Release: 21.04
Codename: hirsute
I've installed it days ago on my Dell Latitude 7420, and also have a bunch of other problems, reported here -- but I hope they are not related…
Prof.Chaos
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Cannot copy/paste file from ssd to hdd?
Now my system has 3 disks: 1 window SSD, 1 Ubuntu on the other SSD, and 1 HDD. 2 system is dual boot setup. Everything and operation is fine (I still copy-paste normally from HDD to SSD) except copying files from Ubuntu SSD to HDD. The warning is…
ShanN
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copy paste was working on its own
I have Ubuntu Laptop ( from System76) . Am facing issues when I type a text/line be it either in email/notepad/document. Say that am typing a doc of 10 lines when I am typing 2nd line my cursor suddenly jumps to line 1 (or any place)and pasting the…
Nnadhakumar
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No permission to copy file to Windows Directory
I'm the one and only administrator of my system. I wanted to copy about a 22GB file to windows directory(C:\users\user_name\saved_games). But UBUNTU said that I have no permission to copy file there. Again I tried to copy a song of about 6MB and it…
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xclip the output from head and tail
I intent to copy the output from ls
gaowei@alpha:~/Downloads$ ls | head -n 10 | tail -n 5
Abraham Silberschatz, Greg Gagne, Peter B. Galvin - Operating System Concepts (2018, Wiley).pdf
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Alice
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Is there a way to copy text with automatically trimming last whitespace characters from it?
I actually can't really provide much info than the subject:
I need to copy text from a document, and each time I have to adjust it very fine to not copy any whitespace characters at the end.
I wish to either:
Copy the text without whitespace…
Daniel
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Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS stops in the middle of multiple file copy-paste for popup prompt (file transfer error)... Is this normal?
I am new and slowly learning the world of Linux and some things I prefer over Windows, some things I don't.
Yesterday, I started a huge backup (~200k files, 800GB) with right-click copy/paste. The ETA was around 16 hours... kinda slow because my…
Marc L
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