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From: Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com>
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Can't paste from selection in gtk-3 apps
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2015 13:23:49 +0000 (UTC)
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On 2015-09-18, J. Roeleveld <joost@antarean.org> wrote:
> On Thu, September 17, 2015 16:33, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> On 2015-09-17, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On 2015-09-17, J. Roeleveld <joost@antarean.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>>>> I use 2 screens extensively and never experienced any issues like you
>>>>>> describe.
>>>>>
>>>>> And you can select/paste from one screen to another where the source
>>>>> is a gtk-3 app?
>>>>
>>>> Not sure, need to test with a gtk-3 app.
>>>>
>>>> I run KDE myself.
>>>
>>>>> I should clarify that I mean "screen" in the strict X11 usage. Using
>>>>> Xinerama or the like to spread a single desktop across multiple
>>>>> monitors is still a single screen setup. I'm trying to select text
>>>>> on DISPLAY=:0.0 and paste it on DISPLAY=:0.1
>>>>
>>>> Not using my desktop atm.
>>>> What does Xorg do by default when it detects multiple screens?
>>>
>>> Not sure -- I'll have to give it a try. IIRC, it just uses the first
>>> one.
>>
>> At least on my machine, if I start up X11 without a configuration
>> file it only uses one of my three monitors. That behavior may depend
>> on which boards are installed and which board/driver is found first.
>
> On my desktop:
>
> $ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf
> Section "Device"
> Identifier "Card0"
> Driver "nvidia"
> BusID "PCI:2:0:0"
> EndSection
>
> (Without this, X doesn't start, complaining it can't find VESA)
>
> echo $DISPLAY returns the same on both desktops.
That is a single X11 screen spread across two physical monitors. It
will not exhibit the gtk-3 selection bug.
Are you sure you have two desktops and it's not just a single desktop
that is spread across two monitors? Can you drag a window from one
monitor to the other? If you can, then it's a single desktop.
> Please note: This desktop was installed years ago and simply kept
> up-to-date for the most part. But it does have the "xinerama"
> USE-flag set globally.
>
> I remember reading something about it, but not sure if this is the
> "new" or "old" way of doing it. I need to check how my laptop handles
> it later today/this weekend.
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