"xclip -selection clipboard" does not paste to terminal

[Hans L]

Binary package hint: gnome-terminal

I have a script which copies some things to clipboard via xclip. I use the "-selection clipboard" option to allow me to paste the results into apps with Ctrl-V keyboard shortcut. This works fine in GUI apps such as gedit for example, but I can not paste the clipboard directly into gnome-terminal.

Steps to reproduce:
In gnome-terminal run the following command:
echo testing123 | xclip -selection clipboard
attempt to paste clipboard back to terminal with Ctrl-Shift-V

Actual Results:
nothing is pasted

Expected results:
"testing123" is pasted onto the terminal command line

Reproducible: Always

The only way I can now paste my clipboard to gnome-terminal is to open a GUI app, paste with Ctrl-V, select the text again, and copy to clipboard again with Ctrl-C. After doing this, I can paste into gnome-terminal with Ctrl-Shift-V.

I'm not exactly sure if this is an xclip or gnome-terminal issue, but I've filed it under gnome-terminal for now.

Ubuntu 8.10
xclip 0.08-8
gnome-terminal 2.24.1.1-0ubuntu1

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

confirmed it doesn't seems to work, but yes that works fine with gedit for example, will look upstream, thanks in advance.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

ok this is why, if you press ctrl+shift+v it will paste from normal buffer, but if you do ctrl+shift+insert it will paste from x selection so the latest one should be used here, does that works fine for you? thanks in advance.

[Hans L (thehans)]

Hmm, ctrl-shift-insert does indeed paste the data from "xclip -selection clipboard", but this is not the correct behavior.

As I understand it, ctrl-shift-insert should paste from the "primary" buffer. The same buffer that selected text goes to, and that middle clicking pastes from.

Whereas ctrl-shift-v should paste from "clipboard", The same buffer that Ctrl-C copies to, and which I am trying to get xclip to paste to.

[Hans L (thehans)]

I was discussing this issue in gnome irc and someone pointed out another issue, which may be related:

As mentioned already, when "xclip -selection clipboard" is used, you can paste in gedit (for example) with Ctrl-V. But the "Paste" action is grayed out in the right-click and "Edit" menus.

gedit is used as an example, but the issues seems to happen in all other GUI apps such as firefox, etc.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

could you try if that's still an issue in jaunty? the bug should be sent to bugzilla.gnome.org by somebody having the issue

[sdaau (sd-imi)]

>> could you try if that's still an issue in jaunty?

Yes it is.

[Bruce van der Kooij (brucevdk)]

I'd like to point out that when I use xsel instead of xclip it seems to work just fine (xsel --clipboard).

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

This needs to be send upstream to bugzilla.gnome.org by someone interesting on the issue.

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

Bug did not expire due to assignment
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Bug refers to GNOME 2 version of terminal
Closing as the report is now invalid