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 AE7DF1393F1 for ; Tue, 15 Sep 2015 18:58:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4E2D821C00E; Tue, 15 Sep 2015 18:57:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2C524E0839 for ; Tue, 15 Sep 2015 18:57:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZbvQK-0006fP-QC for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 15 Sep 2015 20:57:48 +0200 Received: from 67-130-15-94.dia.static.qwest.net ([67.130.15.94]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 15 Sep 2015 20:57:48 +0200 Received: from grant.b.edwards by 67-130-15-94.dia.static.qwest.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 15 Sep 2015 20:57:48 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Grant Edwards Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Can't paste from selection in gtk-3 apps Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2015 18:57:36 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 67-130-15-94.dia.static.qwest.net User-Agent: slrn/1.0.2 (Linux) 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 X-Archives-Salt: 8a84a9fa-b924-4c6d-951e-ac0958050d73 X-Archives-Hash: b500c0ee374b3190795b318507789b7c 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... -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! Are we THERE yet? at My MIND is a SUBMARINE!! gmail.com