Re: Can't copy/paste from meld

[Grant Edwards <grant b edwards gmail com>]

On 2015-09-15, Krolnik, Adam <adam krolnik verisilicon com> wrote:
> On Sep 15, 2015, at 1:49 PM, "Grant Edwards" <grant b edwards gmail com> wrote:

[...]

> > 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.
>
> 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.

Multiple monitors is getting pretty common.  Multiple screens doesn't
seem to be.  I think all of the people I know that run multiple X11 on
monitors are using just a single screen (that's what Xinerama is for).
If you can drag a window from one monitor to another, it's a single
screen spread out over the two monitors. That's not what I have set
up: I'm not using Xinerama and instead have three separate X11 screens
(:0.0, :0.1 and :0.2).  Each is a separte XFCE desktop with it's own
panels (task bar, applets, etc).

With non gtk-3 apps, I can select text on one screen and then paste it
on a different one -- but I can't do that with gtk-3 apps.

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