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
next prev parent 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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