[Xquartz-dev] new xpbproxy

[John Koren]

Hi Jeremy

Thanks for fixing item 2), which caused xpbproxy from not starting
correctly on my Powerbook G4.

I still, however, have a strange problem.  I am trying to select  text
 in rxvt or xterm and paste it to an OSX application (e.g., TextEdit).

Let me first describe how I can get it to work correctly:

1) Copy text in xterm with cmd-c and paste in TextEdit with cmd-v.
2) After that I can simply select text in xterm (without cmd-v) and
paste it TextEdit with cmd-v, which I think is the correct behavior.

Now, if I skip step 1) described above and start with step 2, in which
text is simply highlighted, the problem occurs. I see the following
once I try to paste:

1) Pasting does not work.
2) The X11 windows become difficult to move as dragging becomes very spasmodic.
3) The cpu associated with xpbproxy grows from 0% to 2.5% and never subsides.
4) X11 becomes unusable and I have to quit it.

I hope my description is clear. This is a fully repeatable behavior.

-John

On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 2:23 PM, Jeremy Huddleston <jeremyhu at apple.com> wrote:
> http://people.freedesktop.org/~jeremyhu/xpbproxy-20081015.bz2
>
> This is a slight bugfix and feature addition for xpbproxy.  Just download,
> decompress, and replace /usr/X11/bin/xpbproxy with this one (you need
> 2.3.2_beta1 first).
>
> Fixes/new features:
>
> 1) The "Update pasteboard immediately" option in the preferences pane is now
> implemented.  You can now automatically copy something when you select it.
>  Note however that there is a small caveat to this.  We have *NO* way of
> knowing that you have selected new text in an application.  If you select
> some text in an app then select new text in that app and you're left with
> the original text in the pasteboard, there's absolutely nothing whatsoever
> that we can do to fix this.  Try prodding the developer of that application
> to re-acquire the PRIMARY buffer on selection even if they already have it.
>  GTK, QT, and other toolkits do this already, but there may be some rogue
> apps out there.
>
> 2) CLIPBOARD->Pasteboard should now be working properly.  We were
> incorrectly detecting that a CLIPBOARD_MANAGER was already running (thus
> disabling this feature) when it really wasn't.  My bad.
>
> Known issues:
> * Some image conversion / unrecognized mime types may still exist.  If you
> can't copy an image of a specific format from OSX to X11 or visa versa,
> please file a bug in our trac with the image attached.
> * nedit's copied text doesn't end up in the Pasteboard even though it can be
> pasted to other X11 apps from CLIPBOARD (workaround is cmd-c)
> * MULTIPLE not supported yet
> * CUT_BUFFER* not supported yet
>
> --Jeremy
>
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