Hi. Does this help? https://developer.gnome.org/gdk3/stable/gdk3-Selections.html https://git.suckless.org/surf/file/surf.c.html#l1817
Regards Robin. On Tue, 8 Jan 2019 at 18:37, Caio Barros <caio.bar...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello, > > For some time I've been struggling with clipboard selection on surf. > It seemed to me that it was inconsistent: if i used the mouse do copy > text it worked, but Ctrl-c didn't seem to always work. After trying to > use Ctrl-y to copy the current URL I noticed that I could paste it > using the middle mouse click, but not using, for instance Ctrl-Shift-V > in st. > > After digging a little bit I finally discovered the difference of > PRIMARY and CLIPBOARD selections in X[1]. So, if I understand > correctly, using Ctrl-C or Ctrl-y in surf copies text to PRIMARY, is > that right? If so, my question is how to either change this behavior > of surf or consistently paste text copied to the PRIMARY selection > using the keyboard instead of the middle mouse click? > > If what I'm seeing is not the expected behavior, then what should it > be? I'm not sure if this is related but I noticed that if I type > Ctrl-Shift-o to open the Inspector nothing happens. > > Thanks! > Caio > > [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Clipboard >
