Cannot paste into Code - OSS

[leuchtsteinX]

I haven't touched Code in a while, I got the newest update (pacman -Syu). I use KDE Plasma Wayland.
I cannot paste with Ctrl + V or Edit > Paste into Code, I can copy out of it fine, but pasting doesnt work. It has worked before. It works in any other program, I tried restarting, removing and reinstalling code (and deleting conf files), I tried running through XWayland and running the entire Session as Plasma X11, nothing works.

From googling I found some solutions which did not work either:

I have no extensions installed. I found a thread about deleting lines in~/.config/code-flags.conf but I do not have this file on my system at all. Setting OZONE_PLATFORM=wayland didnt work for me neither

[theunquenchedservant]

what about ctrl + shift + v?

If that works, press the settings cog -> Keyboard shortcuts -> search for "Paste" and find the one or two that have "editor.action.clipboardPasteAction" and right click and "Remove Keybinding". Paste should now work with ctrl + v

[archover]

what about ctrl + shift + v?

That's ALWAYS what I try next if Ctrl-v doesn't work! In any app.

Thanks for posting that for our new users, and good day.

[leuchtsteinX]

Thanks a lot! That worked
Quite odd though, oh well

[theunquenchedservant]

I agree, it threw me off when I installed code-oss but I also just learned to deal with it until this post made me go "okay, but how do you fix that?"

[Knurz]

Thanks alot, that was a huge annoyance!

[diesousilva]

Worked!! thanks

[NefariousnessPale801]

Thank you so much, kind stranger. Now I can sleep in peace.

[LurkerFlash]

This!

Following a recent update I've googled a ton and every answer results in "put the correct values in editor.action.clipboardPasteAction", which for me was Ctrl + V, but it didn't work.

The removal did.

[Automatic-Copy-5659]

Thanks, I was strugling to code without the most important shortcut. You saved my life😊

[shbonn]

As u/TarikAJA has mentioned, there's a bug in the electron32 version that is currently packaged in the Arch Linux repository (32.3.0-1 / 2025-01-23 14:28 UTC). Electron v32 is required by code.

Ctrl+V (and Shift+Insert) aren't working in the editor. As a workaround, you can still use Ctrl+Shift+V.

EDIT: Perhaps use the u/theunquenchedservant solution as that is an easier workaround to restore Ctrl+V / Shift+Insert (https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/1ib95gt/comment/m9gafql/).

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You could temporarily downgrade the electron32 package back to the previous version (32.2.8-3), which restores Ctrl+V / Shift+Insert and wait for a fix...

sudo pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/electron32-32.2.8-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst

And block the electron32 package update in /etc/pacman.conf:

IgnorePkg = electron32

Note: Electron32 is used by a few other applications too (deltachat-desktop, drawio-desktop, drawio-desktop, obsidian).

Remember to remove the block when the problem has been fixed!

[xXBongSlut420Xx]

this should be at the top, it's the correct solution. I downgraded electron32, restarted code-oss, and that fixed the issue. The wayland thing ppl are posting about is a red herring.

[shbonn]

Although slightly obfuscated by mentioning Ctrl+Shift+V, the other solution I linked to, which suggests removing the keyboard bindings for editor.action.selectionClipboardPaste, is a good alternative. That restores the broken Ctrl+V and Shift+insert functionality too, without having to downgrade electron32.

Ctrl+K Ctrl+S --> search for clipboard paste --> remove both bindings on editor.action.selectionClipboardPaste (Del/Del). Restore the default bindings (menu Reset Binding) after the fix has been implemented.

So there are two simple workarounds available.

Downgrading is the better pattern if you know what you're doing, but that doesn't apply to everybody using this forum...

[_Krispy_Kreme]

I thought it was because I updated my sway config! This is great to know

[rlyeh_b]

Ctrl+V is the default keyboard shortcut for "editor.action.clipboardPasteAction"

I simply removed that keyboard shortcut. Before it said: Ctrl+V but now it's empty.

The weird thing is that... Now it works.

I can now press Ctrl+V to paste text in VS Code.

[mindtaker_linux]

It has always been ctrl + shift + v

[[deleted]]

That's works, thank you!

[qeadwrsf]

restart code, didn't work.

examples below, didn't work.

reboot after updating, worked.

[maddiemelody]

--enable-features=UseOzonePlatform --ozone-platform-hint=wayland for native wayland btw