Bug 26971

Summary:	cannot copy from tk clients (exmh, fetchmailconf) to paste to gnome-terminal
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Anvil <anvil>
Component:	gnome-core	Assignee:	Havoc Pennington <hp>
Status:	CLOSED UPSTREAM	QA Contact:	Ben Levenson <benl>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	7.2	CC:	anvil, dnade
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Description Anvil 2001-02-10 18:18:21 UTC

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It seems that i cannot make copy/paste from exmh to gnome-terminal.. I
can copy/paste from exmh to emacs or to xterm but not to
gnome-terminal.. I can also copy/paste from emacs to gnome-term.. so as
a work around i can copy/paste from exmh -> emacs -> gnome-terminal..
While writing this mail i also tried to copy/paste from fetchmailconf to
gnome-term and it didn't work too.. fetchmailconf & exmh are both tk
clients..


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. gnome-terminal &
2. fetchmailconf &
3. select some text in fetchmailconf with the mouse and try to paste it in the gnome-teminal	
	

Actual Results:  nothing happens..

Expected Results:  The text is pasted in gnome-terminal

The bug was not present in guinness.. This may be gnome-core issue or tk issue

Comment 1 Havoc Pennington 2001-02-12 17:01:13 UTC

Are you pasting to gnome-terminal with middle mouse or with the Paste menu item?
Does one work and not the other? See
http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/clipboards.txt, this is probably a Tk bug.

Comment 2 Havoc Pennington 2001-02-13 01:05:00 UTC

Nevermind, the problem is that gnome-terminal was patched to use the
COMPOUND_TEXT target instead of the STRING target for paste as part of Japanese
multibyte support, this is incorrect, it needs to support both targets.
I'll fix this - it should be MUST-FIX as it will cause interoperability issues
with many clients.

Comment 3 Havoc Pennington 2001-02-19 19:26:20 UTC

Should be fixed in  gnome-libs-1.2.8-8

Comment 4 Kjartan Maraas 2004-03-29 20:34:53 UTC

Closing as fixed UPSTREAM. 1.x is no longer supported anyway.