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

[Robert Ou]

On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 6:35 PM, Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org> wrote:
>
> 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.
>

I am not understanding what this problem has to do with sessions. My
system currently isn't running gnome-session at all, and this issue is
not affected by the presence or absence of gnome-settings-daemon.
Other GNOME applications like gedit can copy/paste correctly.