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From: <wabenbau@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Can't paste from selection in gtk-3 apps
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2015 20:41:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150915204111.4b189bcc@hal9000.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mt9dmd$sop$1@ger.gmane.org>

Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com> wrote:

> In most X11 apps I can select some text and then paste it somewhere
> else with a middle-click, or dump it to stdout with the command 'xclip
> -o'.  That doesn't work for highligted text in gtk-3 apps (meld,
> evince, audacious, etc.).  After selecting text in a gtk-3 app, if I
> middle-click in a terminal window it does nothing and 'xclip -o' just
> hangs.  Selecting text elsewhere will deselect the text in the gtk-3
> app, so gtk-3 isn't _completely_ ignoring X11 clipboards/buffers.
> 
> Any ideas why gtk-3 copy/paste is broken and how to fix it?
> 

Right now I made a test with audacious. I selected some text in the 
"title info" window and then pasted the selected text with middle-click
into a text editor (geany). It worked without problems.

--
Regards
wabe


  reply	other threads:[~2015-09-15 18:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-15 15:32 [gentoo-user] Can't paste from selection in gtk-3 apps Grant Edwards
2015-09-15 18:41 ` wabenbau [this message]
2015-09-15 18:57 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2015-09-16 13:04   ` J. Roeleveld
2015-09-16 14:41     ` Grant Edwards
2015-09-17  9:40       ` J. Roeleveld
2015-09-17 14:29         ` Grant Edwards
2015-09-17 14:33           ` Grant Edwards
2015-09-18  5:22             ` J. Roeleveld
2015-09-18 13:23               ` Grant Edwards
2015-09-18 14:11                 ` J. Roeleveld
2015-09-18 14:22                   ` Alan McKinnon
2015-09-18 14:32                     ` J. Roeleveld
2015-09-18 14:44                       ` Grant Edwards
2015-09-18 16:26                         ` J. Roeleveld
2015-09-18 16:47                           ` Grant Edwards
2015-09-20  9:26                     ` Andrew Savchenko
2015-09-18 14:34                   ` Grant Edwards
2015-09-18 16:23                     ` J. Roeleveld
2015-09-18 16:47                       ` Grant Edwards
2015-09-20  8:18       ` Andrew Savchenko

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