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RE: XWin -clipboard and xwinclip bad highlighting behavior
- From: "Andrew Braverman" <abraverman at itms dot com>
- To: <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 16:13:16 -0500
- Subject: RE: XWin -clipboard and xwinclip bad highlighting behavior
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Reply-to: <abraverman at itms dot com>
The one other thing that I notice that I think is related to this is that in
some applications (the one I see it in is ddd when compiled with lesstif),
the selection does not even hold long enough to select it. If I click and
drag (while still holding down the mouse button) the selection disappears.
If I try to paste, my buffer has been deleted. I also have a related
problem when I want to get a menu relating to an area that is larger than
the default area. Normally, I would select the larger area and click (or
right click) on it to get the appropriate menu. I can never do that. Does
anyone have any ideas?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Harold L Hunt II [mailto:huntharo at msu dot edu]
> Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 10:01 AM
> To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
> Subject: Re: XWin -clipboard and xwinclip bad highlighting behavior
>
>
> Derek,
>
> Yes, we know.
>
> This is not an easy problem, search the mailing list archives
> for more
> details.
>
> No one is working on this problem at the moment and we
> appreciate your
> offer to help. You might be interested in the XFIXES
> extension, which
> almost made it into the XFree86 4.3.0 release but was pulled. It
> included a mechanism to notify clients when the clipboard contents
> changed. We can either use this extension to get notification, or we
> can insert our own hooks into the portion of the X Server
> that handles
> the clipboard. Either way, I am beginning to think that providing
> clipboard integration via an X Client is not the correct way
> to address
> this problem.
>
> Ask any questions on the list, I will be glad to assist where I can.
>
> Harold