Text select on Ubuntu 24.04 doest not copy to clipboard for system use

[breaker1nine]

I'm on the brand new LTS release of Ubuntu 24.04:
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=24.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=noble
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 24.04 LTS"

The select to copy text that works with previous releases of Ubuntu does not copy text to the clipboard for use in other applications . It does work fine within Terminator.

I've tried turning "Smart Copy" on and off, which I think enables/disables this feature.

The right-click then selectingt 'copy' works, but one of the features that makes Terminator great is the ability to quickly copy text to the clipboard by highlighting it, and it's not working in Ubunut 24.04.

[breaker1nine]

Any updates on this? I thought there was a possibility that the issue might be hardware-related as my 24.04 installation is on a new Asus laptop but I upgraded my Dell XPS laptop from 22.04 to 24.04, where this feature worked perfectly, and the upgrade broke it.

[mattrose]

I just tried this on Fedora 40, which should have about the same version of GNOME, if not newer, and I was unable to reproduce it.

I'm in the middle of updating my ubuntu VM 24.04 so I should have more later.

[breaker1nine]

I just tried this on Fedora 40, which should have about the same version of GNOME, if not newer, and I was unable to reproduce it.

I'm in the middle of updating my ubuntu VM 24.04 so I should have more later.

Thanks, @mattrose

[mattrose]

I installed Ubuntu 24.04 and I was unable to reproduce what I thought was your problem.
I selected text using the left mouse button and successfully pasted the selected text into both firefox, and gnome-terminal using the middle mouse button

Can you confirm that this is what you did?

[breaker1nine]

I'm using my laptop's mousepad which has no middle mouse button function. I've tried with an older Dell XPS and current Asus UX3405.

I'm doing what I've done for years:

1. Select text with the left mouse button in Terminator and try to CTRL-C to paste into other apps
   or
2. and select 'Paste'.

With either of these methods the text that I've highlighted doesn't end up in the clipboard for other apps (Firefox or Gnome Terminal - I just tried it again with both) to use.

Since moving to 24.04, whatever was in the clipboard before attempting to select-to-copy gets pasted, or if there was nothing in the clipboard before attempting select-to-copy, nothing gets pasted.

(edited for typo)

[breaker1nine]

@mattrose - I just borrowed a usb mouse to test, and can confirm that middle-click-to-paste works to paste selected text from Terminator into Chrome.
I don't use a mouse and this would be disruptive to workflow.

[mattrose]

You need to go into the default profile and click the radio button that says "Copy on Selection". That fixed it for me on ubuntu 24.04

Please reopen if you're still having problems

[breaker1nine]

I'm so embarrased.
I thought I'd looked in the Profile for this setting but apparently my search wasn't good enough.

I found the radio button and ticked it.
This is working fine.
Thanks @mattrose !

[mattrose]

No problem. It took me a moment to figure this out.