Cut and paste from Cursor input buffer to other apps doesn't work

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Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

Cutting text from the agent text entry field / input buffer removes the text, but the text isn’t available in the paste buffer on Linux to paste into other applications, such as Gnome’s Text Editor.

Steps to Reproduce

  • Write text in the agent input buffer
  • Cut it (either via Ctrl-X or Edit → Cut)
  • Attempt to paste it into another application (e.g. xed )

Expected Behavior

Text should paste into the other application via Gnome’s paste buffer, however nothing is pasted. However, text cut from other areas of the Cursor IDE, such as text produced by the model can be copied and pasted successfully from Cursor to other applications.

Operating System

Linux

Version Information

Version: 2.5.20
VSCode Version: 1.105.1
Commit: 511523af765daeb1fa69500ab0df5b6524424610
Date: 2026-02-19T20:41:31.942Z
Build Type: Stable
Release Track: Default
Electron: 39.4.0
Chromium: 142.0.7444.265
Node.js: 22.22.0
V8: 14.2.231.22-electron.0
OS: Linux x64 6.8.0-101-generic

For AI issues: which model did you use?

N/A (but I was using Opus 4.5)

Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue

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Hey, thanks for the report. This is a known issue. Text that you copy or cut from the prompt input field does not get into the system clipboard, so you can’t paste it outside of Cursor. This is not Linux-only. It affects other platforms too.

The team is aware of the problem.

As a temporary workaround, you can write prompts in a regular editor, then copy them into the agent input field. It is not ideal, but it works.

Let me know if you run into anything else.

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You can’t even copy and paste from the prompt to a regular editor in the same app.

This is a serious annoyance. Whatever you are doing to emulate copy and pasting instead of actually performing true copying and pasting is completely wrong and should be addressed as soon as possible.