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From: wabenbau@×××××.com
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Can't paste from selection in gtk-3 apps
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2015 18:41:55
Message-Id: 20150915204111.4b189bcc@hal9000.localdomain
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Can't paste from selection in gtk-3 apps by Grant Edwards
1 Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com> wrote:
2
3 > In most X11 apps I can select some text and then paste it somewhere
4 > else with a middle-click, or dump it to stdout with the command 'xclip
5 > -o'. That doesn't work for highligted text in gtk-3 apps (meld,
6 > evince, audacious, etc.). After selecting text in a gtk-3 app, if I
7 > middle-click in a terminal window it does nothing and 'xclip -o' just
8 > hangs. Selecting text elsewhere will deselect the text in the gtk-3
9 > app, so gtk-3 isn't _completely_ ignoring X11 clipboards/buffers.
10 >
11 > Any ideas why gtk-3 copy/paste is broken and how to fix it?
12 >
13
14 Right now I made a test with audacious. I selected some text in the
15 "title info" window and then pasted the selected text with middle-click
16 into a text editor (geany). It worked without problems.
17
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19 Regards
20 wabe