Bug: clipboard in terminal stops working
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Error description:
The clipboard stops working in the terminal window with the error message "<timestamp> System clipboard is unavailable". This happens when selecting text since IDEA 2020.2.
Workaround:
Go to File -> Settings... -> Tools -> Terminal
Uncheck "Copy to clipboard on selection"
Details:
IntelliJ IDEA 2020.2 (Ultimate Edition)
Build #IU-202.6397.94, built on July 27, 2020
Licensed to ********
Subscription is active until ********
Runtime version: 11.0.7+10-b944.20 amd64
VM: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM by JetBrains s.r.o.
Windows 10 10.0
GC: ParNew, ConcurrentMarkSweep
Memory: 1974M
Cores: 12
Non-Bundled Plugins: Batch Scripts Support, CMD Support, Lombook Plugin, org.asciidoctor.intellij.asciidoc
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Hi Jan,
Thank you for reporting this. Please follow IDEA-245745 on our issue tracker, it was submitted for the same problem.
I added the information you provided to the issue thread.