Bug 2567

Summary:	"Copy Link" from Fancy's right-click context menu not copying "completely".
Product:	Claws Mail (GTK 2)	Reporter:	Nathan Trapuzzano <nbtrap>
Component:	Plugins/Fancy	Assignee:	users
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	minor
Priority:	P3
Version:	3.8.0
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux

Description Nathan Trapuzzano 2011-12-17 16:41:31 UTC

First of all, thank you to all devs for this wonderful application. Keep up the good work. This is my first bug report.

OVERVIEW
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When I right-click on a link displayed in Fancy's html viewer and select "Copy Link", I am unable to paste the url in RXVT-Unicode. Pasting with ctl-v in most applications works fine, but when I try to paste in RXVT-Unicode with Shift-Insert, what gets pasted is what was previously in my "clipboard".

On the other hand, when I select "Copy this link" after right-clicking on a link that's displayed as plain text, copying to RXVT-Unicode with Shift-Insert works fine.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
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1. Open an html message with Fancy that contains a hyperlink.
2. Right-click on the link and selece "Copy Link".
3. Try to paste the url into RXVT-Unicode with Shift-Insert.

ACTUAL RESULTS: The url is not pasted. Rather, what is pasted is what was in the "clipboard" previously.

BUILD: Arch Linux extra/claws-mail-extra-plugins 3.8.0-1

ALSO
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I noticed this issue in 3.7.10, and it's still there in 3.8.0

Comment 1 Ricardo Mones 2012-11-30 20:18:41 UTC

AFAICS this is a limitation of RXVT, which is only able to deal with primary selection. I can paste the copied link in other terminals which do support it.

See for example this thread https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=42563 for possible solutions, like using clipboard tools to exchange selections.