Unable to copy and paste! Makes phpstorm practically unusable.
I have this strange issue. Using PhpStorm on Ubuntu 10.04 which is running on a VMWare image through VMWare Player (not latest, but very new version) with VMWare Tools installed. When PhpStorm is open I can not copy/paste from windows to vmware image. I also can not even copy/paste from within two files inside of PhpStorm. However, if I type something in gedit I can copy from there and paste into PhpStorm. If I copy something from windows I can paste into gedit and then paste into PhpStorm. But if I don't paste it into gedit first, phpstorm will only paste the previous item that was pasted into gedit. Seems to be some kind of problem with blocking/recognizing the clipboard. Has anyone else experienced this problem?
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I have no problem copying and pasting with a Dual Boot install of 10.10.
It may be related to VMWare.
Yeah, I think it has to do with VMWare. However, eclipse, and every other application I run works fine with copy/paste, so I'm guessing it must be a bug in PhpStorm that only shows up maybe when running it in VMWare. Another co-worker is experieincg the same issue on the same configuration as I so it would appear to be easily reproducible.
This open issue is related to what you are seeing:
http://youtrack.jetbrains.net/issue/IDEA-54472?projectKey=IDEA
install netbeans on your vmware machine and you will see you have exactly the same problem there. Its a JRE issue apparently.
Correct.
Eclipse using native code for its UI and thus is not affected.
Yeah, I had a suspision it was due to the JRE. Is there a way to solve the problem? I skimmed over the link you sent, but it didn't seem to have a solution. Is it one of those things we just have to sit back and wait for Sun to fix? I've confirmed the same thing happens with OpenJDK as the java package.
"sit back and wait for sun to fix it"....... the date on the bug report is 2003-02-17 ! Its had 25 votes since then. I think its fairly safe to say that this is not a high priority for them.
My solution to it was to go buy another graphics card so that i didnt have to use synergy to link 2 pcs to get 4 monitors. with an extra graphics card I could run all 4 monitors from the same pc.
That was the only way I could see to 'fix' the problem.
The alternative was to open a text editor and have it sitting next to phpstorm then first paste into the text editor, then re-copy the code and then paste works into PhpStorm.
Yeah, that kind of stinks. I really like Phpstorm and the debug setup especially, but I can't justify the cost of the license plus an additional graphics card to use it. The Copy/Paste thing practically renders this configuration useless to me. You can configure eclipse to do much of the same things, its just not fun and seems way heavier. To bad, I was really hoping to switch away from Eclipse.
I switched from eclipse. and yes there are still things i miss (like the recursive remote folder sync system) but my coding definately has got better as a result of PhpStorm.
But your right, that java copy+paste issue is a deal killer.
If you do find a way to make it work, here is a color scheme that I made to help ease the transition between eclipse and phpstorm:
http://devnet.jetbrains.net/message/5266039#5266039
Latest Version has this issue cant copy between projects total disaster.
Yes, unfortunately the issue isn't addressed yet. Please vote for it to receive updates & move it up in a queue.