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Clipboard management using dmenu
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Sometimes it does not copy #104

Closed king-c closed 4 years ago

king-c commented 5 years ago

Hello,

So I have clipmenu installed alongside clipnotify however when I select and copy sometimes it just does not work (You go to paste and there is nothing in the clipboard). If you go back to copy again it may or may not work. So I have got into the habit now if pressing Ctrl+C about 5 times before I move away, to ensure its actually in the clipboard. Is there something I have not configured correctly? I cant see any other issues on github that mentions this so I am assuming no-one else has this issue?

Thanks

Chris

kaihendry commented 5 years ago

I think I have this problem, but I've yet to figure it out.

cdown commented 5 years ago

Are there any commonalities in what you're trying to copy from? It's possible there's fighting between different clipboard managers for authority.

I personally don't have this issue, so I'm inclined to believe it's some environment-specific issue. However, without knowing exactly what causes it, it's going to be hard to debug.

eugene-su commented 5 years ago

I have the same problem. Its solution is to prevent clipmenu operate with primary.
Setting "${CM_SELECTIONS=clipboard}" in clipmenud does not help.

cdown commented 5 years ago

Huh, why do you think that's the solution if you're not having success with CM_SELECTIONS?

eugene-su commented 5 years ago

Because it is obvious, that primary interferes with the list of clips.
How can I prevent clipmenu to look into primary?

eugene-su commented 5 years ago

Hi @cdown,
I identified source of my problem. I was misleaded by clipboard patch applied to my st termemu.
Sorry for a dummy trail.

cdown commented 5 years ago

Hmm, if it also sets CLIPBOARD that should still work. What exactly happens?

Cc: @kaihendry who is listed on that patch

eugene-su commented 5 years ago

What exactly happens?

I turned off primary in clipmenu. When I was clicking on st window to switch focus on it, st was sending \n symbol to clipboard. So I thought, that clipmenu sometimes didn't copy.
Now, without clipboard patch st sends to clip only by pressing ctrl+shift+v.

cdown commented 4 years ago

I believe I know the cause for this issue, and it should be fixed in 6.0.0, specifically f22fce7f0407b6ace997599827b9f9ab01ad5c3f. Please let me know if 6.0.0 still has issues for you :-)