X11 primary selection doesn't work with scud

[zerthimon]

Latest version on ubuntu 16.04, unity

Try selecting something in some other window and then use a middle mouse button to paste it to scud - it pastes something else.

[raelgc]

There is Qt5 doc at https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qclipboard.html#Mode-enum, maybe we can try force to use the mouse selection. Hope this do not disable the general clipboard.

[zerthimon]

Hmm, this used to work previously.

[raelgc]

Probably is qt5 (which the latest version is based) handling different. I'll test.

[shevek]

I actually came here to report exactly this bug. scudcloud always pastes the clipboard, not the primary selection. If I paste into a text editor, then ^C-copy to the clipboard, then scudcloud pastes it. But now I can't paste out of xterm.

[UnitedMarsupials-zz]

Pasting out of Scudcloud does not work as an X11-user would expect either. When I right-click on a link and ask for it to be "copied", it is not placed onto the primary. Doing the middle-button paste into browser fails...

Other apps do it -- for example, doing the same in Thunderbird and Firefox, for example, works as expected. This link may be useful...

[raelgc]

Hi @UnitedMarsupials, thanks for the feedback.

Unfortunately, Scudcloud has no code dedicated to copy and paste: we're using the standard Qt copy & paste functionality.

It was working with both clipboards as intended months ago, but after the past upgrades, Qt changed this.

[UnitedMarsupials-zz]

There may be some sort of a flag to pass to Qt, perhaps?

[raelgc]

@UnitedMarsupials If I correctly understood, only when setting data to the clipboard: https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qclipboard.html#Mode-enum

[UnitedMarsupials-zz]

Sorry, I'm not a GUI expert at all :-( And I certainly never programmed with Qt -- my sole ventures into GUI were using Tcl/Tk... But this can't be affecting only Scudcloud -- other users of Qt (and/or Python Qt) must've encountered this issue and discussed it. I'm sure, the solution is known by now :)

[UnitedMarsupials-zz]

Sorry, any hope for a fix for this? It is really annoying to, when trying to copy-paste from xterm, have to copy into an editor first, and then ctrl-c/ctrl-v from the editor into scudcloud...

[maciex]

This problem still exists in v1.6.5 on Fedora 28.
Any plans or ideas on fixing this?