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Re: XWin -clipboard and xwinclip bad highlighting behavior


Andrew,

This issue has been beat to death in the mailing list archives since xwinclip was first released. It is not possible to fix xwinclip without a server extension or without modifying the server code directly to support an integrated clipboard system. Search the archives if you are interested.

Harold

Andrew Braverman wrote:
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




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