I was curious...did anyone happen to get a look at this one I posted some time
ago? I'm stumped on it. urxvt appears to be the only terminal that doesn't
recognize these gtk supplied selections. As a matter of fact, it appears to
be the only program I can find that doesn't.
Thanks in advance.
Tom
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: Pasting selections supplied by GTK
> Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 19:45:49 -0500
> CC: [email protected]
>
>
> First of all, sorry about the bad email formatting. I made the mistake of
> using my hotmail account (which I don't use too often) for the list and...
> no big surprise...it's a raging piece of you-know-what. It took me forever
> just to get it to reply in plain text. I assumed it would wrap the outgoing
> stuff like gmail, and it didn't.
>
> > Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 22:11:34 +0100
> > From: [email protected]
> > To: [email protected]
> > CC: [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: Pasting selections supplied by GTK
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 02:58:35PM -0500, Tom Dexter wrote:
> >>> I've found that selections supplied by GTK apps using code such as the
> >>> following example on their devel site:
> >
> > any easily accessible gtk app that displays any issues? I just tried with
> > firefox, gimp and gedit, and all just work. I assume the selection dcode is
> > quite similar in them.
> >
> >>> The reason I ran into this is because I've used wmcliphist (a GTK
> >>> clipboard history program that uses similar GTK selection code) for quite
> >>> some time and would like to switch from aterm to urxvt because of the
> >>> unicode support.
> >
> > I tried installing wmcliphist, but since I don't have easy access to
> > libglib-1 anymore, I couldn't install it.
> >
>
> Apparenty Gentoo (which I'm running), as well as some other distributions,
> have patched the
> original wmcliphist to use gtk 2 and glib 2...you may not have access to
> that. The sample code
> on that GTK page, which I've attached (supply.c) compiles on my system with:
>
> gcc supply.c -o supply `pkg-config --cflags --libs gtk+-2.0`
>
> When the resulting 'sample' executable it run, clicking the button labeled
> 'Claim Selection'
> puts text containing the current time in the primary selection.
>
> The thing is that I don't know of any other GTK based program that's
> expressly trying
> to supply the selection programatically.
>
> >>> Any ideas as why that doesn't work? Thanks in advance.
> >
> > No, but you really should format your e-mails so other people can read them.
> > pasting everything together into a few long lines makes your e-mails hard to
> > read, and it doesn't make me want to reply to them.
> >
> >> One question regarding the middle mouse click functionality in urxvt. Am I
> >> correct that it pastes the primary selection? That's what appears to be
> >> the case from testing using xsel etc.
> >
> > Yes.
> >
> >> The above issue I posted originally really perplexes me if that is in fact
> >> that case. The primary selection supplied by the sample GTK code I linked
> >> to can be pasted with the middle mouse in every terminal program I've
> >> tried (in fact every application of any sort that I've tried) except urxvt.
> >
> > How did you come by with the specific urxvt binary? Did you compile it
> > yourself?
> >
>
> As I mentioned, I'm running Gentoo, so actually like everything, it was
> actually compiled on
> my system. I'm running the latest stable version in Gentoo:
> x11-terms/rxvt-unicode-9.05.
> My current version of gcc is 4.1.2.
>
> >> Any clues as to why that would be? If I had some idea I might be able to
> >> find something on the GTK end that would correct it. Thanks.
> >
> > No, the selection works just fine between gtk+ apps and urxvt in
> > general. I have not found any instance where it wouldn't work.
> >
>
> As I mentioned earlier, a lot of GTK apps will let you select text and paste
> it, but that's not using
> the GTK api that programatically populates the primary selection as that
> sample program
> and wmcliphist do.
>
> Thanks a million for the reply, and sorry for the prior crappy hotmail posts.
>
> Tom
>
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