Avatar for Username

Search Support

Avoid support scams. We will never ask you to call or text a phone number or share personal information. Please report suspicious activity using the “Report Abuse” option.

Learn More

Natao arisiva ity resaka mitohy ity. Mametraha fanontaniana azafady raha mila fanampiana.

ubuntu linux -- no menus in composing message window -- can't paste into message

  • 4 valiny
  • 1 manana an'ity olana ity
  • 1 view
  • Valiny farany nomen'i pdsimdars

pdsimdars
pdsimdars
more options

I installed Ubuntu 18.04. It's great they install Thunderbird as a default. I did manage to copy my profile files over, but you don't really have a good tutorial for doing it. But I noticed when trying to compose a message that there are no menus at the top of the compose window and "alt" doesn't bring any up. Usually I copy and then paste text into the compose window but I can't figure out how to do that. ctrl-v doesn't work, and as I said, no menus on that page to select "paste" option.

I installed Ubuntu 18.04. It's great they install Thunderbird as a default. I did manage to copy my profile files over, but you don't really have a good tutorial for doing it. But I noticed when trying to compose a message that there are no menus at the top of the compose window and "alt" doesn't bring any up. Usually I copy and then paste text into the compose window but I can't figure out how to do that. ctrl-v doesn't work, and as I said, no menus on that page to select "paste" option.

All Replies (4)

christ1
christ1
  • Top 25 Contributor
more options

Press F10 to bring up the menu bar.

pdsimdars
pdsimdars Tompon'ny fanontaniana
more options

F10 does bring up the menu bar and that is great to know. I don't know about all the commands but the paste definitely doesn't work. I copy an image to the clipboard and select "paste" (while the cursor is in the email body) and nothing happens. The command key listed is the standard (ctrl-v) and that doesn't work either. I was in an image software application and did "copy" from there, but maybe it didn't actually copy it. Let me go test that.

pdsimdars
pdsimdars Tompon'ny fanontaniana
more options

I thought I'd open a new file and paste into that but irfanview doesn't have a file menu item for "new". So I went to LibreOffice and opened a new document and copied the picture from the Irfanview window and pasted it into LibreOffice. It did paste the image but doesn't in thunderbird.

pdsimdars
pdsimdars Tompon'ny fanontaniana
more options

OK, I find a picture I like, and right click on it to "copy image". That image will not paste into T-bird. . . but it will paste into LibreOffice. and from there I can copy and paste it into T-bird.