Enlightenment: Unable to 'copy' text from terminology

noarch · 2015-01-08 09:34:00

Hi All,

I'm using 'terminology' as a shell under Enlightenment. I can't seem to 'copy' any text from terminology. I've tried defining custom keybindings plus the default keybindings Alt+w, Ctrl+Shift+c etc but none of them work. The 'copy' works with every other application including xterm, where the selected text automatically gets copied to primary buffer.

Interestingly I'm able to 'paste' text into terminology window. So ctrl+c from browser and ctrl+shift+v would work on "terminology". I've found some 'copy/paste' related bugs for Enlightenment, EFL applications https://github.com/synergy/synergy/issues/4021 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=316018 but they are not directly related to my problem.

Any ideas how to debug this further? I'm loving terminology otherwise, so would hate to change my shell emulator.

Regards

karol · 2015-01-08 10:33:00

I'm selecting with my mouse to copy and using middle mouse button to paste. I'm using neither synergy nor kde.
Works for me on my 32-bit Arch with [testing] repos enabled.

noarch · 2015-01-08 16:00:28

Instead of launching from menu, I launched terminology from another xterm shell. So now, whenever I select any text in terminology, the following error appears in xterm.

CRI<1278>:ecore_evas lib/ecore_evas/ecore_evas.c:203 _ecore_evas_interface_get() Ecore_Evas 0xac5940 (engine: software_x11) does not have interface 'wayland'
ERR<1278>: lib/ecore_evas/ecore_evas.c:4033 ecore_evas_wayland_window_get() safety check failed: iface == NULL

My laptop is running on x86_64 architecture. And ofcourse no synergy or kde either.

Scimmia · 2015-01-08 16:31:37

I get that as well, but ctrl-shift-c still copies just fine. No idea how to debug it, your best bet would probably be to ask in #e on freenode.

noarch · 2015-01-09 08:19:14

I tried to build terminology from AUR package, but I think makepkg is trying to access directories which onnly have root permissions.

# makepkg -s
.......
.......
make[5]: Entering directory '/home/cheema/experiments/terminology-git/src/terminology/data/themes/nyanology'
  EDJ      nyanology.edj
edje_cc: Critical. Unable to open temp file "/run/user/0/edje_cc.edc-tmp-GWwE4a" for pre-processor.
Makefile:680: recipe for target 'nyanology.edj' failed
make[5]: *** [nyanology.edj] Error 255
......
......

Is there a work around?

Last edited by noarch (2015-01-09 08:20:02)

Scimmia · 2015-01-09 08:27:29

What is the output of `echo $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR`? Are you booting with systemd?

noarch · 2015-01-09 08:40:13

Yep, I'm using systemd. However, to run makepkg, I'm using 'su' to log into non-privileged user.

root@arch:~# echo $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR
/run/user/0
root@arch:~# su cheema
[cheema@arch root]$ echo $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR
/run/user/0

Scimmia · 2015-01-09 08:43:59

ah, so that's why it's getting root's runtime dir. Doesn't look like that's going to work in this case.

noarch · 2015-01-09 08:46:30

Thanks for pointing out. I built a couple of other AUR packages and never had this issue. Newbie here

Scimmia · 2015-01-09 08:51:03

And it should work in almost all cases. It just so happens that edje_cc uses XDG_RUNTIME_DIR for it's temp files, so it needs access. You could even set this variable temporarily to something else if you wanted and it should then work.

Last edited by Scimmia (2015-01-09 08:54:15)

noarch · 2015-01-09 08:56:21

I was able to build, but no luck with terminology. Same copy-paste issue. Moving to guake now.

Thanks for all the help.

Last edited by noarch (2015-01-09 08:56:42)

mike_r · 2015-01-09 17:02:04

Maybe glaringly obvious, but have you checked the keybindings? Right click in terminology, then click "Settings", then "Keys". Any interference from the main enlightenment key bindings (main Settings panel -> Input -> Key Bindings)?

noarch · 2015-01-09 21:16:46

mike,
I mentioned in the first post that I tried default and custom keybindings.

mike_r · 2015-01-12 23:09:46

Oops, sorry - I guess I read that sentence too quickly. This is odd; I'm running Arch/e19/terminology on three different machines and have no such issues - terminology continues to be stellar. I do wonder if there is still some sort of permission issue - do you run as root normally? I wonder if there is a pipe somewhere that needs a chmod. Have you tried it on a completely fresh, unprivileged account? Starting from scratch may uncover something interesting. Anyway, I'm rapidly getting out of my depth; good luck if you give it another shot.

Edit: I can't spell.

Last edited by mike_r (2015-01-12 23:11:40)

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