On Tuesday, September 15, 2015 06:57:36 PM Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2015-09-15, Grant Edwards <[email protected]> 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
