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.
Sent from my iPhone On Sep 15, 2015, at 1:49 PM, "Grant Edwards" <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2015-09-15, Grant Edwards <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 2015-08-29, Kai Willadsen <[email protected]> wrote: >>> On 27 August 2015 at 02:42, Grant Edwards <[email protected]> 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. > > -- > Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! I'm shaving!! > at I'M SHAVING!! > gmail.com > > _______________________________________________ > meld-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/meld-list _______________________________________________ meld-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/meld-list
