Copy as HTML in Gnome Terminal (f38beta)

[Robin A. Meade]

I'm having trouble with the *Copy as HTML* menu item in GnomeTerminal in Fedora 38 beta.

When I paste the result into a Google doc, the result is HTML code.

When I paste the result into a Libre Office Writer doc, the result is an error dialog saying "Requested clipboard format is not available."

A workaround I found is to execute the following after selecting the *Copy as HTML* menu item:

xclip -sel c -t 'text/plain' -o | xclip -sel c -t 'text/html'

Anybody else have this problem? I'm wondering if it is a problem with my particular installation.

[Kamil Paral]

On Sun, Apr 9, 2023 at 8:11 AM Robin A. Meade 
wrote:
> I'm having trouble with the *Copy as HTML* menu item in GnomeTerminal in
> Fedora 38 beta.
>
> When I paste the result into a Google doc, the result is HTML code.
>
> When I paste the result into a Libre Office Writer doc, the result is an
> error dialog saying "Requested clipboard format is not available."
>
> A workaround I found is to execute the following after selecting the *Copy
> as HTML* menu item:
> xclip -sel c -t 'text/plain' -o | xclip -sel c -t 'text/html'
>
> Anybody else have this problem? I'm wondering if it is a problem with my
> particular installation.

I can confirm this. When I play with `wl-paste -l` and `wl-paste -t
mimetype`, it seems that gnome-terminal offers 'text/html' mimetype, but
it's empty. The html tags are actually present in the 'text/plain' content.
When I copy something into the clipboard in Firefox, it correctly populates
both 'text/html' and 'text/plain' with appropriate content. So I think the
problem is in gnome-terminal. Can you please report a problem here?
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-terminal/-/issues

[Robin A. Meade]

Thanks!

I filed issue#7975:

[Copy as HTML offers 'text/html' mimetype, but it's empty, and 'text/plain' contains HTML tags](
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-terminal/-/issues/7975
)