Re: bug: x11 terminal grabs mouse selection

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Tuesday 25 August 2009, Petr Mikulik wrote:
> > > The plot is copied into clipboard and then it can be mouse-pasted into e.g.
> > > OpenOffice as a plot. It is saved as a png file I see.
> > > 
> > > On the other hand it seems that in WX terminal the icon functionality "copy
> > > plot to clipboad" is broken -- if I press it and then try to copy the plot
> > > into OpenOffice, nothing happens. Can somebody reproduce this problem?
> > 
> > I'd say it's OOo that is broken.
> > 
> > gnuplot wxt icon works here and I can past into gimp no prob.
> > 
> > Exactly what context are you trying to paste into OO? I can test here if
> > you give specifics.
> 
> Try it with whatever plot: test, plot x, splot x*y
> 
> Pasting directly from wxt to gimp or to koffice works, but not to 
> OpenOffice. Doing "Insert" in Koffice or in Gimp and then pasting it in 
> OpenOffice, the graph gets into OO.
> 
> Is it really bug in OO or in the way how wxt copies it into the clipboard?

There are actually three "clipboards" involved. Different programs make
different assumptions about which of them is being used for cut+paste.
This is further complicated if you are running a clipboard managing program
as part of your desktop.

If you are running KDE, try opening up the configuration menu of klipper
(the clipboard manager) and experiment with the options available for
"Cliboard/Selection Behavior".  You probably want to tick the box
"Synchronize contents of the clipboard and the selection".