Re: [evince] Configuring and using the clipboard from evince: button 1 "autocopy", button 2 paste

[Laverne Schrock <lists-laverne schrock email>]

On Mon, 2016-06-13 at 16:07 -0700, Germán Poo-Caamaño wrote:
> On Sun, 2016-06-12 at 18:54 +0000, Colin Kincaid Williams wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I would like to be able to button1 or left click select text from a
> > pdf and left click again to copy to the clipboard, then paste into
> > my
> > terminal using button2 or middle click. This seems to work for some
> > applications as described for example from chromium to the
> > terminal.
> > However this doesn't seem to be configured in evince.
> >
> > I looked at dconf-editor for an option, but didn't see one. I found
> > a
> > post about an "autocopy" configuration setting for firefox. However
> > my
> > searches didn't find any way to configure this for evince. Then can
> > somebody tell me how to configure this?

For me, I simply need to highlight the text in Evince. I can then paste
with button two in any application that accepts it. My setup is a
little non-standard. I'm using autocutsel (http://www.nongnu.org/autocu
tsel/ should also be available through your package manager) to keep my
two clipboards in sync. I can use Ctrl-C to copy and Button2 to paste
or vice versa. It takes some getting used to, but I like it.


> However, my uneducated guess is that you are using Wayland (likely in
> a
> recent Fedora), and that feature does not seem supported on
> applications that can run natively on Wayland (which is not the case
> of
> Firefox).
Ah! that could be the problem. I haven't used Wayland (besides in gdm)
yet so I hadn't considered how that might change things for copy and
paste.
> That is only explanation that occurs to me, as I use X11 and the
> selection + middle click works as expected... in X11.
Same