[Xquartz-dev] xpbproxy Oct 29th 2008 test release

[George Peter Staplin]

xpbproxy is a pasteboard proxy.  It allows copying and pasting text  
and images between X11 and Mac applications.

*Please see the included README.txt for testing and installation  
instructions.*

Changes since the X11-2.3.2_beta2.pkg release:

1. PICT support has been added, so applications that
set only the PICT clipboard type should now work with
paste in X11 apps.

2. Copy and paste with Nedit works.

3. Copy and paste with Eterm works (see below).

Eterm has 3 bugs which have been worked around
in the TARGETS property that it sends.

The first bug is that it sets the TARGETS property
type to TARGETS instead of ATOM; which is not ICCCM
compliant.  The 2nd is that it mishandles the size
of the TARGETS list.  Thus, the Atoms are being sent
as a series of 8-bit quantities, which will not work
if say the server and client are running on different
endian systems.  The 3rd bug is that in some cases
the list of TARGET atoms may be incorrect from Eterm,
from truncated values.  It's sending 16 bits of data
for what should be 64 (2 Atoms).  xpbproxy attempts
to detect and work around the bugs.


The tarball may be found from the webpage here:
http://people.freedesktop.org/~gstaplin/

or directly via this link:
http://people.freedesktop.org/~gstaplin/xpbproxy_Oct-29-2008.tar.bz2

Please report problems to this xquartz-dev list or directly to me if  
you prefer via gstaplin at apple.com

Enjoy,

George
-- 
http://people.freedesktop.org/~gstaplin/