Re: Can't copy/paste from meld

[Grant Edwards <grant b edwards gmail com>]

On 2015-08-29, Kai Willadsen <kai willadsen gmail com> wrote:
> On 27 August 2015 at 02:42, Grant Edwards <grant b edwards gmail com> wrote:
>
> > I've noticed that since I upgraded from 1.x, I can no longer select a
> > snippet of text from meld and paste it into another window like I can
> > from every other application on my system.  Is there something I can
> > do to re-enable the standard X11 compatible select/middle-click
> > feature?
>
> We don't do anything to disable this, and it works fine for me. I know
> there's some GTK+ settings for primary clipboard support, but best I know
> they all default to on, so as a best guess I'd be looking to see whether
> your distribution has customised GTK+ 3 settings somehow. If not and we're
> somehow messing something up then that's a bug... I would want primary to
> work.

Yep, this seems to be a gtk-3 problem.  I tracked down a few more
gtk-3 apps and they all suffer the same fate.  It turns out that I
don't have very many gtk-3 apps, and meld is the only one I use
regularly -- so it gets blamed for a variety of general gtk-3
brokenness (which is probably Gentoo-specific).

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