[arch-general] Mouse C&P not working

Don Juan donjuansjiz at gmail.com
Sat Jan 14 19:13:13 EST 2012


On 01/14/2012 02:56 PM, Ralf Madorf wrote:
> On Sat, 2012-01-14 at 12:44 -0800, Don Juan wrote:
>>> Regarding to X a widespread issue seems to be that the nv driver is
>>> dropped, fortunately Arch still includes it to the repositories.
>> I am thankful for that as well or else I would never be able to shutdown
>> or reboot my laptop. NV driver is the only one that I can get to work
>> reliably with my video card. Nouveau is even worse of a driver to use
>> for my card over the proprietary. Its sad I cant use a video driver that
>> works reliably that's actually being developed. I hope they get X and
>> nvidia sorted out soon.
> Since the nv driver works without failure it doesn't need development.
> Hopefully it will be possible to use it with future versions of X and
> future versions of the compiler hopefully will be able to build the nv
> driver.
>
>> About the C&P are you sure that you don't have one of those paste
>> programs running in the background that you did not configure. I
>> remember I accidentally got one installed not paying attention to an
>> install and I had to remove it to get my C&P back to normal.
> I don't know. It's possible that for Xfce such a program is running.
>
See if you have xfce4-clipman-plugin installed if not maybe try 
installing it. May be the missing ilnk for you or may be the cause of 
the problem if installed. Not sure what else to look at if the other 
suggestions dont work.


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