On 2015-09-15, Grant Edwards <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2015-08-29, Kai Willadsen <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On 27 August 2015 at 02:42, Grant Edwards <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> I've noticed that since I upgraded from 1.x, I can no longer select a
>>> snippet of text from meld and paste it into another window like I can
>>> from every other application on my system. Is there something I can
>>> do to re-enable the standard X11 compatible select/middle-click
>>> feature?
>>
>> We don't do anything to disable this, and it works fine for me. I know
>> there's some GTK+ settings for primary clipboard support, but best I know
>> they all default to on, so as a best guess I'd be looking to see whether
>> your distribution has customised GTK+ 3 settings somehow. If not and we're
>> somehow messing something up then that's a bug... I would want primary to
>> work.
>
> Yep, this seems to be a gtk-3 problem. I tracked down a few more
> gtk-3 apps and they all suffer the same fate. It turns out that I
> don't have very many gtk-3 apps, and meld is the only one I use
> regularly -- so it gets blamed for a variety of general gtk-3
> brokenness (which is probably Gentoo-specific).
I've tracked this down further.
The Gnome developers broke gtk's clipboard support on multi-screen
setups. You can only paste selected text from a gtk-3 app when the
destination is on the same screen. Because of the way I work, I'm
usually cutting and pasting between screens.
That has always worked find in gtk-2 (and all other toolkits I'm aware
of). I'm pretty sure this is has been a known probelm for a long
time, but the developers all use single-screen systems, and therefore
it's either not a priority or they can't figure out how to test it.
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