[winswitch] Clipboard problems with xpra >= 0.9.0

[Antoine Martin]

On 22/05/13 08:21, Douglas Doole wrote:
> I have picked up xpra 0.9.3 on both my client and server, but I still can't
> paste from my server to the client.
>
> I haven't had a chance to follow the links you previously provided. Is
> there anything different you'd like me to try, or is that the best bet?
Best thing is to try simple things with " XPRA_CLIPBOARD_DEBUG=1 xpra .."
As per the clipboard testing section:
http://xpra.org/trac/wiki/Clipboard#Testingtheclipboard

Otherwise, I will have to reproduce your setup so I will need to know
all the usual details (distro version, application used, etc), more
generic info here:
http://xpra.org/trac/wiki/ReportingBugs#Guidelines

Cheers
Antoine

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>
> On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 2:51 AM, Antoine Martin <antoine at nagafix.co.uk>wrote:
>
>> Never mind, clipboard should be fixed for *nix clients (again - sorry
>> about that):
>> http://xpra.org/trac/changeset/3399/xpra
>> and for v0.9.x:
>> http://xpra.org/trac/changeset/3401/xpra
>>
>> I will try to push the bug fix asap.
>> In the meantime, it would really help if people could confirm that this
>> fix has not broken MS Windows clients again...
>> (aka "greedy" clients in the code)
>>
>> Thanks
>> Antoine
>>
>>
>>
>> On 14/05/13 00:15, Douglas Doole wrote:
>>> 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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