[Xquartz-dev] new xpbproxy

[Peter Collinson]

I cannot repeat this... it seems to work fine for me on my G4 or Intel  
boxes.

Either selecting a region or selecting and using with Cmd-C in xterm  
allows me to Cmd-V it into textedit.
The Cmd-C is not needed.

This is great stuff - thanks Jeremy and George for this.

On 16 Oct 2008, at 08:55, John Koren wrote:

> 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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