copy/paste failures when logged into another machine via ssh -Y

[Colin Law]

On 13 July 2012 14:30, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
> Greetings all;
>
> One of the things I could do when I was running pclos on this machine was
> to use the mouse to hi-lite a line of text being displayed by gedit on the
> remote machine, switch to a different workspace here and MMB the text into
> another local file.
>
> I don't seem to be able to do that now that I am running ubuntu on this box
> too.
>
> Is this a gedit failing, or something else?  If a gedit failure, is it
> fixable somehow?

It works ok for me running Ubuntu desktop 12.04.

You mention switching to a different workspace, is that significant?
Is it ok if the two gedits are on the same workspace?

Colin

>
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>
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