Hi.
Does this help?
https://developer.gnome.org/gdk3/stable/gdk3-Selections.html
https://git.suckless.org/surf/file/surf.c.html#l1817
Regards Robin.
On Tue, 8 Jan 2019 at 18:37, Caio Barros <caio.barros_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> For some time I've been struggling with clipboard selection on surf.
> It seemed to me that it was inconsistent: if i used the mouse do copy
> text it worked, but Ctrl-c didn't seem to always work. After trying to
> use Ctrl-y to copy the current URL I noticed that I could paste it
> using the middle mouse click, but not using, for instance Ctrl-Shift-V
> in st.
>
> After digging a little bit I finally discovered the difference of
> PRIMARY and CLIPBOARD selections in X[1]. So, if I understand
> correctly, using Ctrl-C or Ctrl-y in surf copies text to PRIMARY, is
> that right? If so, my question is how to either change this behavior
> of surf or consistently paste text copied to the PRIMARY selection
> using the keyboard instead of the middle mouse click?
>
> If what I'm seeing is not the expected behavior, then what should it
> be? I'm not sure if this is related but I noticed that if I type
> Ctrl-Shift-o to open the Inspector nothing happens.
>
> Thanks!
> Caio
>
> [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Clipboard
>
Received on Wed Jan 09 2019 - 00:33:21 CET