Hi
I've just made a fresh installation of Debian 8 on a dell notebook I use
at work on a docking station.
I use fluxbox and since I work a lot with Ruby on Rails and Django, I
like to have a web browser on the left screen and my code on my right
screen. I configured my X server so that both screens run more or less
independent from each other, that means that my left screen stays on a
workspace while I can change the workspace on the right screen. My
server layout look like this (see the attached xorg.conf)
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout0"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
Screen 1 "Screen1" RightOf "Screen0"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
Option "Xinerama" "0"
EndSection
I don't like icedove and iceweasel so I installed firefox & thunderbird
from the websites. I like to have my thunderbird on my right screen.
After the installation I noticed this strange behaviour:
On my right screen I have thunderbird running, on my left I have a
mate-terminal running vim. I had to make copy&paste from an email so I
selected the text and then on the left screen I pressed the middle mouse
button but the text was not pasted. If I press the middle mouse button
on a mate-terminal on the same screen as where thunderbird is running,
the text is pasted as expected.
Then I seletced the text in thunderbird again and pressed Ctrl+C to use
the CLIPBOARD clipboard instead of PRIMARY. Then I tried to make a right
click on the mate-terminal but the menu with the "Paste" option didn't
appear. I tried that a couple of times with the same result. I also
tried to paste on other programs and the result the same: the context
menu did not appear. Then I closed thunderbird and all of a sudden the
mate-terminal showed me the context menu from the right click.
I started thunderbird again and I selected the text but did not press
Ctrl+C. On the mate-terminal I made a right click and I was able to see
the context menu. So then I went back to thunderbird and pressed Ctrl+C
again and then strange behaviour happend again.
Long story short: I started suspecting that GTK3 and the CLIPBOARD
clipboard cause some problems on a separate screen. I tried other gtk3,
gtk2 and QT apps and I was always able to reproduce this behaviour with
the gtk3 apps. The reason why I suspect that it has something to do with
the clipboard is that at some point I started xclipboard to monitor what
GTK3 apps are writing on the clicpboard. With xclipboard running I
wasn't able to reproduce the behaviour again (although pasting from
PRIMARY still doesn't work). Another clue was that when I was
experiencing the problems with the right click, I made a right click on
the desktop and I got the context menu. In fact if the context menu does
not have a "Copy/Paste" option, it was displayed without problems.
Can somebody with a similar X11 setup reproduce this behaviour?
I found this https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/clipboard#GTK perhaps
there is some configuration flag I could use to prevent this.
What could be the issue here?
Best regards
Pablo
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# nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings
# nvidia-settings: version 319.17 (buildmeister@swio-display-x86-rhel47-10) Thu Apr 25 21:55:50 PDT 2013
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout0"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
Screen 1 "Screen1" RightOf "Screen0"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
Option "Xinerama" "0"
EndSection
Section "Files"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi"
FontPath "built-ins"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
# HorizSync source: edid, VertRefresh source: edid
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "LGD"
HorizSync 44.4 - 66.6
VertRefresh 40.0 - 60.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
# HorizSync source: edid, VertRefresh source: edid
Identifier "Monitor1"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "Samsung SyncMaster"
HorizSync 30.0 - 81.0
VertRefresh 50.0 - 63.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
BoardName "NVS 4200M"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Screen 0
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Device1"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
BoardName "NVS 4200M"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Screen 1
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "Stereo" "0"
Option "metamodes" "DFP-2: 1280x1024 +0+0"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen1"
Device "Device1"
Monitor "Monitor1"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "Stereo" "0"
Option "metamodes" "DFP-1: nvidia-auto-select +0+0"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
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