Re: Can't copy/paste from meld

["Krolnik, Adam" <adam krolnik verisilicon com>]

Sounds like the GUI developers are finally using under powered machines to develop and test their code. My 
shop has ppl with 3 screens now. 


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On Sep 15, 2015, at 1:49 PM, "Grant Edwards" <grant b edwards gmail com> wrote:

> On 2015-09-15, Grant Edwards <grant b edwards gmail com> wrote:
> > 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).
>
> I've tracked this down further.
>
> The Gnome developers broke gtk's clipboard support on multi-screen
> setups.  You can only paste selected text from a gtk-3 app when the
> destination is on the same screen.  Because of the way I work, I'm
> usually cutting and pasting between screens.
>
> That has always worked find in gtk-2 (and all other toolkits I'm aware
> of).  I'm pretty sure this is has been a known probelm for a long
> time, but the developers all use single-screen systems, and therefore
> it's either not a priority or they can't figure out how to test it.
>
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