Re: gnome-terminal - cannot cut&paste between gnome-terminals on separate screens

I know that wayland has issues with copy and paste from wayland to X11 
do you happen to run wayland?

On 11/03/16 18:36, Tod A. Sandman wrote:
> I rely heavily on dual monitors with many terminal windows and workspaces.  For many years (since SunOS4 I think) I've configured dual monitors as independent screens (i.e., :0.0 and 0:1).  From within a terminal on one screen I could open a new terminal displayed on the other screen, and cut&paste worked seamlessly across any terminals. Since I moved from Centos6 to Centos7, this seems to be a real challenge.
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> With the latest Centos7 and gnome-terminal, cut&paste works fine amongst gnome-terminals on the same screen. However, it does not work at all amongst gnome-terminals on separate screens.
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> I noticed this does not apply to some other apps I tried. For instance, cut&paste works fine across screens for firefox and openoffice. Cut&paste FROM other apps into a gnome-terminal on a different screen also works, while cut&paste TO other apps from a gnome-terminal does not.
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> I installed xterm and it seems to work fine, but I'm hoping to avoid going back to it.
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> I think this is related to gnome-terminal as opposed to my graphics driver (NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-352.63) or window manager (XFCE4).
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> Have any other dual screen users experienced this issue?
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> Thanks
>
>
> Tod Sandman
> Sr. Systems Administrator
> Office of Information Technology
> Rice University
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