Can No Longer Double Click to Copy and Single Left Click to Paste

[Karl Auer]

On Tue, 2016-02-16 at 11:10 -0500, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:
> I am running BioLinux v-8.0, which is based on Ubuntu 14.04 6a Bit), in a
> VMWare Workstation 12 Player on a Win 10 Laptop.
> After reinstalling the Win OS after a crash and reinstalling BioLinux I find
> that I can no longer copy by double left clicking and the paste with a right
> Mouse slick.

Did you reinstall BioLinux from scratch, or did you restore an existing
VM?

When you right click on the paste destination, do you get a context menu
with "Paste" in it? I haven't heard of directly pasting with a
right-click, it's usually a middle-click.

Also, do the keyboard shortcuts for copy and paste work? Can you e.g.
mark text using shift-arrow, copy it with CTL-C, paste it with CTL-V?

Are you talking about copy-and-paste within the guest (BioLinux) or
between the guest and the host?

If between guest and host:

Not sure about VMWare, but some virtualisation tools have a post-install
step that finishes off the integration of the guest with the host. The
integration includes things like resizing the desktop dynamically to fit
a resizing window, and also things like copy-and-paste between the guest
and the host. It may be that after re-installing the guest, you omitted
that step. Some virtualisation systems also allow you to restrict copy
and paste, allowing copy only from the guest or only from the host, or
both. Maybe there's a setting there you forgot to set.

If within the guest:

There may well be user interface settings that give you control over how
to copy and paste. Much as in nautilus you can say whether you want open
on a single or double click. Perhaps the behaviour you want is
configurable?

Regards, K.

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