From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDB531393F1 for ; Wed, 16 Sep 2015 13:04:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3AD9021C002; Wed, 16 Sep 2015 13:04:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from gw2.antarean.org (gw2.antarean.org [141.105.125.208]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F385E0806 for ; Wed, 16 Sep 2015 13:04:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gw2.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E2EC121BD0 for ; Wed, 16 Sep 2015 13:01:18 +0000 () X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at antarean.org Received: from gw2.antarean.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (gw2.antarean.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id UlV3zOd5gbXB for ; Wed, 16 Sep 2015 13:01:17 +0000 (%Z) Received: from data.antarean.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gw2.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9E78121358 for ; Wed, 16 Sep 2015 13:01:17 +0000 () Received: from andromeda.localnet (unknown [10.20.13.36]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by data.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 2B2AC4C for ; Wed, 16 Sep 2015 15:03:00 +0200 (CEST) From: "J. Roeleveld" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Can't paste from selection in gtk-3 apps Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2015 15:04:02 +0200 Message-ID: <4495733.REUhFB2KrW@andromeda> User-Agent: KMail/4.14.8 (Linux/4.0.5-gentoo; KDE/4.14.8; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: References: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Archives-Salt: d11ec7fa-e0d7-43cd-8a22-e7ab6d53d25c X-Archives-Hash: dab4993ad4d75ae9b889445b5a6ff5cf On Tuesday, September 15, 2015 06:57:36 PM Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2015-09-15, Grant Edwards 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? > > Ah, it turns out it's only a problem if you have multiple screens: you > can only paste a gtk-3 selection if the destination is on the same X11 > screen as the source. I'm pretty sure this is a known problem, but > I'm having trouble finding it again in the Gnome bugtracker... Must be related to gtk-3 then. I use 2 screens extensively and never experienced any issues like you describe. Am surprised it would respond differently between GTK-3 and non-GTK-3 apps. I don't configure anything special for multiple screens in the past few years. -- Joost