In PureOS Crimson, it seems like it no longer works to copy text from SMS messages in chatty. It used to be possible to long-press (long tap, long touch, whatever you call it) on a message and then there was a popup menu where you could select to copy the message text to the clipboard, but that does not seem to work in Crimson.
(A typical situation when I want this is when an SMS message has arrived with some details about a package delivery or similar, that I want to paste into an email or into a matrix client.)
Does anyone know a way to do it, or some setting that could be changed to make it work, or something?
I came up with the following workaround, from the commandline. First sudo apt install sqlite3 and then dump the chatty database to a text file like this:
The current upstream version of Chatty provides a single-entry menu with “Copy Text” option on a long-tap on the message bubble, so this will come in PureOS Dawn.
When pressing the copy “text button” nothing seems to happen. the button goes away. Then I click on the area where I type a text and it doesn’t give me a way to paste any text. Did it not copy it? Or am im not doing the pasting part right?
When I text doesn’t send because of poor service I want to resend the text. I don’t know how, and can’t seem to copy the text to send it again.
In GTK apps, there’s a popup that shows up when you tap on a text entry’s handle where you can choose a paste option. Note that it may not show up if you never typed anything into the entry (but typing any letter and removing it is enough to workaround that).
awesome, both solutions worked. Thanks! (I had to type a few letters and then long click on the letters and it gave me the option to paste, control v also worked in terminal keyboard mode too)
