Re: [Evolution] Why does not copy & paste work in separate monitor setup?

[Nick Jenkins <nickpj gmail com>]

> > Ok, I take your point... But since this only happens with Evolution 
> > and 
> > no other applications, I am assuming that this is a problem with 
> > Evolution and not the system around it....
>
> If indeed there were a problem with Evolution it would still important
> to know the context. Not that many people have multiple monitor setups
> and I don't recall anyone mentioning this problem before now, though
> you might want to check Bugzilla.

I've run Evolution on multiple monitors since late 2008, spanning
Evolution version 2.28 through to 3.10.4, with 2 x 24" monitors until
2012, and 3 x 24" monitors since then, all in portrait rather than
landscape orientation. Copy and paste worked fine in all the above Evo
versions and time.

The multi-monitor annoyances that I have encountered have been non-Evo
things, like the login greeter orientation is wrong, the BIOS bootup
output orientation is wrong, and some desktops like early Gnome 3 seemed
to crash a lot. It's always been via one graphics card (Nvidia card
using proprietary drivers and then nouveau open source drivers until
2012, and on-board Intel HD Graphics Haswell card using open source
driver since then), so presumably it's always been one X server, set up
as one big desktop that stretches horizontally.

Other than that, I really can't tell you much about the X setup I'm
using, I just go with whatever the distro (Ubuntu) ships, and follow the
xkcd view of X11: https://xkcd.com/963/ . Though if you care about Evo
being up-to-date, I'd avoid Ubuntu, because unfortunately they don't
seem to care about keeping it current. Fedora and OpenSuse seem to get
good distro recommendations on this list as regards keeping Evo
up-to-date.

-- All the best,
Nick.