Re: Copy to clipboard for Linux

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Tuesday 18 July 2006 03:06 pm, Timoth=E9e Lecomte wrote:
> >
> > Correct.  I think the important thing we are try to address is the
> > race condition Ethan describes.  One in which the Pixmap doesn't
> > seem to successfully make it over to the application (client)
> > requesting it.  We were handling the request, but sometimes the
> > trasfer was unsuccessful.

Who, me?
I didn't say anything about a race condition.

What is the problem you are trying to solve?
So far as I know the clipboard stuff is currently working as well,
or better, than it did before.

My only contribution to this thread was to point out that we
discovered during the last go-round that different versions of KDE
(in particular different versions of klipper) and different versions
of OpenOffice all play fast-and-loose with the supposedly "standard"
protocol for the X clipboard.  Following the standard doesn't help
if the apps you are trying to work with do not themselves follow it.

All of these issues with timestamps and selection requests were
involved, and it seemed at the time that only an empirical fix
was possible.  Certainly no "fix" can be accepted if it doesn't
work with the whole range of window managers that are likely to
be used.

Please see previous thread for details.




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Ethan A Merritt
Biomolecular Structure Center
University of Washington, Seattle WA