Hello. I am a newbie to endeavouros and am wondering how to enable ‘copy and paste’ because I just can’t. I always have to type all and sometimes it’ s just a waste of time . Can you please help me?
Thank you very much
It seems to work for most people without difficulty - where and in what can you not get it to work? IT even uses the same keyboard shortcuts that most people know best (in most places), and many apps have GUI access to it as well…
Need more input! (to quote Johnny Five)
Hello. I am a newbie to endeavouros and am wondering how to enable ‘copy and paste’ because I just can’t. I always have to type all and sometimes it’ s just a waste of time . Can you please help me?
Thank you very much
Seems to work for me. . .
Are you in firefox, terminal, notepad, onlyoffice, libreoffice, chromium, kcalc
Are you on xfce, lxqt, sway, plasma, cinnamon or something else?
Are you trying to right click and copy, does the text highlight, are you trying to paste with ctrl+v. . . .
There’s like a million variables you need to give us before we can make any logical assumption as to what you’re trying to do and where and with what.
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copy and paste as well as right mouse click does not work anywhere at all…it’s a fresh install and I can’t do many things because of this… Can you please help me??
it does not work in firefoy , in terminal, etc
I am on gnome desktop
my language is German
I am trying to right click and copy and it just doesn’t work. I can´t even mark a text.
I usually right click on a folder and select open in a new tab, That is impossible. Right- click does not work at all…and it worked on the live session before I installed endeavourOS
Thank you very much
Wayland?
what is Wayland? I ve heard of it but don’t know how to identify it
For example I want to install a git but need to right click it…impossible
In a terminal:
echo $XDG_SESSION_TYPE
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wayland
There is your problem. Reboot and select X11 from the session manager. Wayland is a pain, still under heavy development and lots of things do not work as expected or at all.
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how do I select X11 from the session manager?
I have never done it
I have never run GDM so am not sure, but I think this will help:
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Thank You, but well I really do not know how to run GDM. I have just installed endeavour and only know how it works in ubuntu… I am so lost in here…How do I open GDM? Thank You
Have just installed, give me a minute to configure and work it out.
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GDM is basically just the login screen. It should be on the login screen.
It should have a bunch of info on the wiki how to go back to x11 if it’s not there. You may have to do a little research on this. Unlike Ubuntu we do assume you do some of your own information gathering here. We’re not a super beginner oriented distro like Ubuntu. We will absolutely help you in your journey, but it’s expected for you to help yourself too.
sudo nano /etc/gdm/custom.conf
Look for the line:
#WaylandEnable=false
Delete the “#” and save, then reboot.
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Thank You I am not a super ubuntu beginner. I spent 10 years with ubuntu but I am no longer happy with it. Thank You
I deleted the # and did a reboot but still cannot copy and paste
When you boot up, after you put in your user name, but BEFORE the password, look for a gear icon bottom right, clickand select gnome x11.
edit - it is the other left 
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Run this command again to verify that you are no longer using Wayland.
ah ok… I’l take a look Thank You