Pasting selections supplied by GTK

[Tom Dexter]

> From: digitalaudiorock at hotmail.com
> To: rxvt-unicode at lists.schmorp.de
> Subject: Pasting selections supplied by GTK
> Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2008 17:16:46 -0500
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>
> Hello. I joined the list specifically to see if anyone could give me some idea as to why the following doesn't work.
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> I've found that selections supplied by GTK apps using code such as the following example on their devel site:
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> http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk-tutorial/stable/x1875.html
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> ...simply won't paste into a urxvt terminal with the middle mouse. These selections will paste into any other terminal I've tried (uxterm, aterm, konsole, etc), but when middle clicking in urxvt it never seems to even signal the GTK app to request the selection.
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> The reason I ran into this is because I've used wmcliphist (a GTK clipboard history program that uses similar GTK selection code) for quite some time and would like to switch from aterm to urxvt because of the unicode support.
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> Any ideas as why that doesn't work? Thanks in advance.
>
> Tom
>

One question regarding the middle mouse click functionality in urxvt.  Am I correct that it pastes the primary selection?  That's what appears to be the case from testing using xsel etc.

The above issue I posted originally really perplexes me if that is in fact that case.  The primary selection supplied by the sample GTK code I linked to can be pasted with the middle mouse in every terminal program I've tried (in fact every application of any sort that I've tried) except urxvt.

Any clues as to why that would be?  If I had some idea I might be able to find something on the GTK end that would correct it.  Thanks.

Tom


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