Re: [rdesktop-devel] Patch: Paste from X (Linux) Session to Terminal Server

[Alan F. <al...@wh...>]

On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 01:41:44PM +0100, Steve Fosdick wrote:
> I attach a patch against rdesktop 1.2.0 to implement a very crude paste 
> function from the X session into Terminal Server.

Crude or not, this is fantastic!

> This is a strictly tactical solution as it works by getting the X primary 
> selection as a string, translating the characters to keystrokes and then 
> sending them to the terminal server.  It tries to handle keymaps correctly 
> but I make no guarantee on that one.

This patch has already proved very very useful. I'd been trying to write
something similar myself but I just didn't know enough about X selection
programming.

How I'd like to improve this patch is to check if the selection buffer
contains anything -- if yes, send that, if not, send the middle button
click. I've tried to implement this by putting a conditional rdp_send_input 
call in the SelectionNotify event, but unfortunately I seem to have failed
miserably :(

Could someone possibly look at implementing this? ;-)

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Alan Ford * al...@wh...