Greg Davill

This issue is quite a few versions behind, So I'm closing it. Feel free to open a new issue using the latest version if you still have problems

If you duplicate a footprint on the board does the same issue exist? If that case works there might be a change we can make to to the footprint generation...

Once a footprint is generated it's placed onto the clipboard. This step sounds like it's all working. As you say manually pasting from the clipboard works. In order to start...

I see in the unittests for wx that they skip UISimulatorAction.Char on OSX. So maybe there is a bug there? https://github.com/wxWidgets/Phoenix/blob/master/unittests/test_uiaction.py#L172 I've switched to using KeyUp/KeyDown as a test

Is this still an issue on OSX?

Are you also on OSX? I suspect either the paste operation doesn't work. Or it's been captured by a different window. :/

We have an old macbook in the office. If it's compatible with Catalina I'll be able to load up KiCad v6 and try doing some debugging myself over the next...

Using the latest commit, and `v1.0.0` from PCM. I'm able to get the automatic paste working on Catalina (The newest OSX that my macbook pro I'm borrowing supports :100: )...

On Windows/OSX we now bypass the need for UIActionSimulator, and insert a "Ctrl + V" directly into the PCB editors Event queue. This should fix some of the issues here....

I think your problem might be related to using i3. I saw similar issues when it was my window manager. When we generate a label we try to close dialog...