Bugzilla Bug 127317

Shift-insert now pastes from the CLIPBOARD instead of pasting from PRIMARY.
This affects gnome-terminal as well.

Steps to reproduce:

* Open a terminal in X (either vte or gnome-terminal)
* Type ls to get some text on the screen
* Use mouse to highlight some text
* Using keyoard type ctrl-shift-c to copy to CLIPBOARD
* Use mouse to highlight a different piece of text
* Verify that it's in PRIMARY by middle clicking. The second set of text should
be pasted where the cursor is.
* On keyboard type shift-insert. You'll get the text from CLIPBOARD instead of
PRIMARY.

The original (and standard) behavour was that ctrl-shift-v would paste from
CLIPBOARD and shift-insert pastes from PRIMARY.

Version information:

x11-libs/vte-0.11.18                 use: -debug -static
x11-terms/gnome-terminal-2.12.0      use: -debug -doc +python

Everything else Gnome-wise is the stable version. And so is most of the system.

Looking at this, it looks like an upstream problem:
  https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/vte/+bug/31354

Let me know if I can provide any more information.

Seeing vte's ChangeLog, this seems to have been fixed for vte-0.11.19. Could
you try with vte-0.11.20 that is in our tree (hardmasked)?

Do you mean 0.12.0? There is not 0.11.20 that I can see.

(In reply to comment #2)
> Do you mean 0.12.0? There is not 0.11.20 that I can see.
> 

Indeed, sorry for the confusion. vte-0.12.0 doesn't depend on any other
hardmasked stuff so it should be reasonable simple to test it. Thanks.

> Indeed, sorry for the confusion. vte-0.12.0 doesn't depend on any other
> hardmasked stuff so it should be reasonable simple to test it. Thanks.

Yes, that is fixed in 0.12.0. It also fixed the problem in gnome-terminal
without recompilation. Thanks!

Note that I just tried 0.11.18 and this bug is NOT fixed there.

this should be consider solved for gnome 2.14 I think. If gnome 2.14 hits
stable in the near future, I think it is not appropriate to patch 0.11.18. It
would be one more patch that would need to be maintained for no good reason
considering it is solved upstream.

Considering this fixed upstream, as 0.12.2 is stable on major arches.