On 2015-07-22, Emile van Sebille <em...@fenx.com> wrote: > On 7/21/2015 5:10 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2015-07-21, Emile van Sebille <em...@fenx.com> wrote: >>> On 7/21/2015 2:47 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: > >>>> 1) You can't copy/paste text from evince _at_all_. >>> >>> Hmm, i just copied "Acorsa Artichoke Heart - Quarter, Water, Can" from a >>> catalog pdf, so _at_all_ depends on something -- I couldn't copy text >>> from scanned documents, but that's to be expected. >> >> Interesting. How do you do it? For all other apps, all you have to do >> is select the text and then center-click in the window where you want >> the selected text inserted. > > Well, I select and right click copy then right click paste in where I > want it. I never got into the center click options.
Ah! I've narrowed down the problem with evince select/copy. It works fine as long as you do the paste on the same X11 display[1]. If you try to do the paste on a different display, you get nothing. None of the other apps I've tried have this problem. I've checked various X terminals, xemacs, firefox, chrome, libreoffce, acroread, meld, xfreerdp. [Yes, I can cut and paste from _Windows_ apps across displays but not from evince]. I filed a bug against evince, but I don't know how common multiple display setups are (as opposed to single display, multiple monitor setups like you get with Xinerama). So it may never get fixed (unless I get ambitious). [1] When I refer to a "display" in this context, I mean an X11 display (as in $DISPLAY) not a physical LCD/CRT monitor. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! I want to dress you at up as TALLULAH BANKHEAD and gmail.com cover you with VASELINE and WHEAT THINS ... -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list