Can't use clipboard to/from outside STS under swaywm (linux)

[rdady]

Describe the bug Fedora 36 + swaywm (wayland) Control+C Control+V Control+X content coming from other application or wanting to copy from STS into other application has no effect. Although it works in KDE Plasma wayland session.

To Reproduce Choose swaywm at linux login, start STS. Copy from e.g. Firefox/terminal anything, try to paste with Control+V, nothing happens. If previously copied something from STS to clipboard you can expect this to be pasted instead of correct content. Same effect for clipboard and primary as well.

Sample NA

Spring Tool Suite 4 Version: 4.15.3.RELEASE Build Id: 202208110744

[martinlippert]

Thanks for reporting this @rdady. This sounds like an issue on the IDE platform level that we leverage, so would it be possible for you to verify that in your environment by trying a plain vanilla Eclipse installation to see if the issue is specific for the Spring Tools distribution or a general issue with Eclipse on your system platform? That would be awesome.

[rdady]

Your are right. Same disability in fresh Eclipse as well. It must be a special behaviour of some key binding I was not able to resolve. But why would Eclipse set that as default, make the clipboard functionality a mess ? - Retorical question.

[martinlippert]

@rdady Thanks for testing this on a vanilla Eclipse installation and for verifying that this seems to be related to the platform and it nothing specific to the Spring Tools. I would recommend to file the issue against the Eclipse platform then and we close this one here as a duplicate then.