copy/paste issues

[Simon8912]

• Web Browser: Firefox
• Local OS: Windows 10
• Remote OS: Linux ubuntu 20.04
• Remote Architecture: Rancher
• code-server --version: code-server: v3.5.0

The paste command is not working. I can copy a line from the workspace ,but I can't copy it nowhere else. Also the copy/paste is not working in the terminal . Is this a bug? Is there a way to get around this problem? The code-server is runing on a ubuntu server with docker-Kubernetes-rancher.

[code-asher]

There are some issues with pasting in Firefox. See here for some potential workarounds: #1106

Please feel free to post there as well if you have more details to add.

[mirekphd]

One reproducible situation when paste operation stops working (in v4.14.0 with Code 1.79.2 using Firefox 114.0.2 on Ubuntu 22.04) is when you copy a file in the file Explorer (using Copy from the right-click mouse context menu or Ctrl+C). From that moment the copied file path is the only string that can be pasted into the Code Server editors until the entire page is reloaded as a workaround, which causes the clipboard to be emptied. Pasting into the Code Server terminal (with Shift+Insert) continues to works fine though (is not locked with the copied file path, and can be even populated with new strings copied using Ctrl+C from the Code Server editor).