Bug#842423: gnome-terminal: Regression? gnome-terminal copies text to the wrong X display, but pastes from the correct one

[Michael Biebl]

Am 29.10.2016 um 01:29 schrieb Robert Ou:
> Package: gnome-terminal
> Version: 3.22.0-3
> Severity: important
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> After updating packages, I discovered that I was unable to copy/paste
> properly in gnome-terminal. After experimenting, I discovered that this
> was related to how my system has two X displays (e.g. :0 and :1) at the
> same time. If gnome-terminal is launched on display :1, it somehow
> manages to copy text onto the clipboard of display :0. However, pasting
> text will paste the text from the clipboard of display :1. This makes it
> impossible to use copy/paste in gnome-terminal in any sane way because
> copied text can no longer be pasted in the same window where the text was
> originally copied from. A gnome-terminal launched on display :0 copy/pastes
> correctly (from and to the clipboard of display :0).

Running multiple X/GNOME sessions for the same user is something which
is not supported by GNOME.



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