Suddenly and without any wrongdoing on my part of course, my clipboard no longer behaves the way it used to.
I copy text (with ctrl+c) and images (with the xfce screenshoter) into the clipboard a lot and when i ctrl+v i want it to paste the last thing i copied into it.
But to my complete surprise it now always pastes the text. To paste the image i have to select it in the xfce clipboard manager and then ctrl+v. If i then copy a new image into the clipboard it will again only paste the text until i select the new image from the clipboard manager.
If i close the xfce clipboard manager i can no longer paste images from the clipboard, so it does not seem to be an issue with the clipboard manager itself.
Is this something that can be configured somewhere? Maybe there are other keyboard-shortcuts i’m not aware of.
There seems to be, or have been, a similar issue with Plasma, i.e. pasting the previous contents of the clipboard instead of the latest.
Also, copy and paste doesn’t work correctly in e.g. Skype, from, for example, Spectacle. One has to save the image, copy it via the file manager (in this case Dolphin) then paste it into Skype.
Sorry not much help here, just worth noting. I’ll be looking into this, I’m sure.
I’m not sure skypeforlinux is one. It does have a strange way of interacting with right-clicks, though; it takes over. Also the audio feed, if I’m using the headset, gets switched to “muffle mode” and I have to switch it back via System Settings →Sound.
What I have on this system:
pacman -Qi skypeforlinux-stable-bin
Name : skypeforlinux-stable-bin
Version : 8.83.0.411-1
Description : Skype for Linux - Stable/Release Version
Architecture : x86_64
URL : http://www.skype.com
Licenses : custom
Groups : None
Provides : skypeforlinux skype
Depends On : gtk3 libxss alsa-lib libxtst libsecret nss glibc>=2.28-4
Optional Deps : org.freedesktop.secrets: keyring/password support [installed]
libappindicator-gtk3: systray icon support [installed]
Required By : None
Optional For : None
Conflicts With : skypeforlinux skypeforlinux-bin skypeforlinux-preview-bin skypeforlinux-beta-bin skype
Replaces : None
Installed Size : 298.18 MiB
Packager : Unknown Packager
Build Date : Fri Jun 17 22:46:50 2022
Install Date : Fri Jun 17 22:48:03 2022
Install Reason : Explicitly installed
Install Script : Yes
Validated By : None
But the changelog shows package was last updated 7 months ago - v1.6.6 released (2024-02-29)
So any recent change in behaviour is more likely to be from changes to user settings
I suggest check the Actions tab in xfce4-clipman-settings to see if there are any custom actions configured for image files or text files