[winswitch] Clipboard problems with xpra >= 0.9.0

Douglas Doole dougdoole at gmail.com
Wed May 29 02:01:51 BST 2013


With xpra 0.9.4 on the client and server, my clipboard problems are
resolved. Thanks.


On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 10:28 PM, Antoine Martin <antoine at nagafix.co.uk>wrote:

> 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
>
> >
> >
> > 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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