Bug 1400088

Summary: elinks can no longer cut/paste/send hot links to chrome - with wayland/fedora 25
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: djf <dfarrell>
Component: elinksAssignee: Kamil Dudka <kdudka>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 25CC: dfarrell, kdudka, ovasik
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Description djf 2016-11-30 12:46:36 UTC 
Description of problem:

1. ctl+left mouse click would send a web link from elinks text browser - to chrome
2. shift+left mouse move over link, then a ctl-c would copy a web link from elinks. It could then be pasted anywhere.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

elinks-0.12-0.48.pre6.fc24.x86_64
xorg-x11-server-Xwayland-1.19.0-1.fc25.x86_64
linux 4.8.8-200
chrome 54.0.2840-90


How reproducible:

Easy - see

Steps to Reproduce:

1. hot link

$ elinks google.com
  ctl+left mouse click (on web link on bottom left side of elinks)
  ERROR: Before wayland the above would open the links in chrome

2. copy/paste

$ elinks google.com
  shift+hold left mouse click, and highlight link on bottom left side of elinks
  ERROR: before wayland the above would copy the link - to be pasted elseware

3.

Actual results:

Can not hot link or copy and paste

Expected results:

hot links from elinks into chrome, and copy/paste links anywhere

Additional info:

None
Comment 1 Kamil Dudka 2016-11-30 12:59:36 UTC 
AFAIK, elinks does not create any window on its own.  Do you run it in a graphical terminal?  Which terminal?  Are you able to copy text from other terminal-based applications in that terminal?
Comment 2 Kamil Dudka 2017-03-02 09:12:19 UTC 
No answer for 3 months.  Closing...