[Xquartz-dev] 1.4.2-apple20

[robert delius royar]

Fri, 24 Oct 2008 (10:56 -0700 UTC) Jeremy Huddleston wrote:

>> > When I highlight text in xterm, the text is copied to the clipboard, but 
>> > the highlight immediately turns off (as soon as I release the mouse 
>> > button).  That is not how X in the same xterm version (237) on my Xandros 
>> > system works.  I missed most of last week's discussions; perhaps this was 
>> > discussed.
>> 
>> I don't see that happening... hmm =/
>> 
>> I thought this might happen once we got the proxy-immediately stuff working 
>> (and not just when we enter/leave X11.app) ... but I don't think that's 
>> done yet.
>
>
> Oh, wait... I see what you mean... you don't mean immediately.  You mean:
>
> select text in xterm.
> leave X11.app
> return to X11.app to see the selection disappear.

No, I do mean immediately
  Button down in xterm          [highlight is on]
  Move mouse over text in xterm [highlight still on]
  Button up in xterm            [highlight is off]

It appears to be this resource in ~/.Xresources:
XTerm*VT100*selectToClipboard: true
When I start without that resource, the highlight remains even after I 
switch to another window outside X11.app.

> This is because leaving X11.app causes xpbproxy to update NSPasteboard.  Then 
> on returning to X11.app, xpbproxy notices the pasteboard was updated and 
> proxies that to CLIPBOARD and PRIMARY.
>
> I was expecting this to happen, but didn't plan on dealing with it until we 
> had the "proxy immediately rather than on activate/deactivate" work done... 
> We basically have a cycle here that needs a break: if I was the one to cause 
> the PB/CB/PRIMARY update, then don't ___.
>
> --Jeremy

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Dr. Robert Delius Royar                   Associate Professor of English
Morehead State University                             Morehead, Kentucky