Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > In most X11 apps I can select some text and then paste it somewhere > else with a middle-click, or dump it to stdout with the command 'xclip > -o'. That doesn't work for highligted text in gtk-3 apps (meld, > evince, audacious, etc.). After selecting text in a gtk-3 app, if I > middle-click in a terminal window it does nothing and 'xclip -o' just > hangs. Selecting text elsewhere will deselect the text in the gtk-3 > app, so gtk-3 isn't _completely_ ignoring X11 clipboards/buffers. > > Any ideas why gtk-3 copy/paste is broken and how to fix it? >
Right now I made a test with audacious. I selected some text in the "title info" window and then pasted the selected text with middle-click into a text editor (geany). It worked without problems. -- Regards wabe
