[winswitch] Clipboard problems with xpra >= 0.9.0

Douglas Doole dougdoole at gmail.com
Mon May 13 18:15:34 BST 2013


Thanks Antoine. I'll take a look at those links and see what I can do.

I can quickly add that I am not using any clipboard manager (such as
klipper), nor do I have any VMs in use. Things had been working fine under
0.8.x and before, so its definitely a recent code change that caused the
problem.

On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 11:33 AM, Antoine Martin <antoine at nagafix.co.uk>wrote:

> On 05/13/2013 10:16 PM, Douglas Doole wrote:
> > Since xpra 0.9.0, I've been having problems with using the clipboard to
> > move information from my remote session to the client machine.
> >
> > On the remote machine, I've been trying to copy from xterm, gvim, and a
> > number of other programs. On the local machine I've been trying to paste
> > into konsole, gvim, and a number of other text processing programs.
> >
> > I'm currently running xpra 0.9.1 at both the client and server.
> >
> > The client is 32-bit Ubuntu 12.04 running KDE.
> >
> > The server is 64-bit Ubuntu 12.04.
> >
> > Let me know what logs you'd like to see and I can forward them.
> Ouch, there were a number of fixes to the clipboard code in 0.9.x, but
> those were for win32 clients. I didn't think those would affect Linux
> clients...
>
> First, please take a look at:
> http://xpra.org/trac/wiki/Clipboard
> Bear in mind that a number of things can interfere with the clipboard
> code: KDE's klipper, VMs (VirtualBox, etc), synergy,..
>
> IF you still feel like helping to debug this problem, please have a look
> at this ticket to see what to do / how to test (long!):
> http://xpra.org/trac/ticket/272
> Generally, this is a good place to start:
> XPRA_CLIPBOARD_DEBUG=1 xpra ...
>
> Cheers
> Antoine
>
>
>
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
>
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