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

[Bjørn T Johansen <btj havleik no>]

On 16.07.2015 11:19, Pete Biggs wrote:
> Why do you configure your screens in that way and not just span a
> single screen across both monitors?  It's not a criticism, just
> wondering if there is a different way to achieve what you want - having
> multiple screens like this is not a "normal" way of doing things.

Yes, I know it's not the "normal" way but it's the way I have always 
done it... :) I am a developer and I run my IDE on one desktop on 
display 2 and my web browser on a different desktop on the same display, 
databaseadmin app on yet a different desktop, etc...
At the same time, I have terminal window open that tail logfiles on 
display 1.. And when I change desktop on display 2, I do not want to 
change desktop at the same time on display 1, if you see.... :)

> > Ok, tried both and they both worked a couple times at first and then
> > the paste stopped working again... I can see the text I copied in
> > those
> > applications but they are just not there when I try to paste on the
> > other screen... (btw, it is the same when I try to paste something
> > into Evolution
> > from the other screen).
>
> Clearly then Evolution is accessing a different clipboard buffer on
> each screen - I wonder if it's something to do with GTK rather than X
> itself.  Do other pure Gnome applications show the same issues?

Can you mention some pure Gnome applications I can try?

BTJ