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  • Re: need help with konsole

    From David Wright@3:633/10 to All on Tuesday, March 31, 2026 00:50:01
    On Mon 30 Mar 2026 at 11:55:45 (-0700), John White wrote:
    I was only able to copy a few words of text from konsole to kate and can't repeat that
    success. So I still need help. The errors I am getting are simply this: I keep my time in a
    program called etm in konsole. It produces a file which contains the date, the work I did
    that day and the time it took me to accomplish that work. Etm was recently succeeded
    by a new program called tklr which is bettr. So I am no longer using etm. However I
    need to get the time saved in etm into kate so I can send client bills.

    When I highlight 3 or 4 lines of text in etm and attempt to paste that lines into kate,
    nothing happens. I got it to copy once using the middle mouse but can't repeat that.

    Many applications use this method:

    . click in the text you want to capture,
    . press Ctrl-A to select all the text,
    . press Ctrl-C to copy the selected text,
    . paste the text in some way:
    . you might be able to paste into an editor with Shift-Insert,
    . ditto with Ctrl-V,
    . ditto with middle mouse button,
    . ditto if right mouse button yields a little selection menu.

    Not using Konsole, I know nothing about this selection method:

    https://docs.kde.org/trunk_kf6/en/konsole/konsole/selection.html

    nor where or how to paste such a selection.

    Cheers,
    David.

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  • From Max Nikulin@3:633/10 to All on Tuesday, March 31, 2026 04:50:01
    On 31/03/2026 1:55 am, John White wrote:
    When I highlight 3 or 4 lines of text in etm and attempt to paste that
    lines into kate, nothing happens. I got it to copy once using the middle mouse but can't repeat that.

    Shooting dark since description of the issue is not detailed enough:
    press and hold [Shift] before selecting text using mouse in a terminal emulator. Some applications running in terminals handle mouse events themselves unless [Shift] is pressed.

    I hope, it is not an issue with synchronizing X11 and Wayland selection
    and clipboard.

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  • From Timothy M Butterworth@3:633/10 to All on Tuesday, March 31, 2026 10:00:01
    On Mon, Mar 30, 2026 at 1:09?PM John White <john@whitelawchartered.com>
    wrote:
    I am using debian bookworm on KDE Plasma 22.12 I need help with konsole, i.e.. I cannot highlite files in konsole or copy them to kate or kmail. Am happy to pay.

    John

    In Konsole ctrl + shift + c copies and ctrl + shift + v pastes.
    In Kate/Kwrite/Kmail ctrl + c copies and ctrl + v pastes.
    Tim

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