[gentoo-user] Re: Can't paste from selection in gtk-3 apps

[Grant Edwards]

On 2015-09-15, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com> 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...

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