[winswitch] Clipboard problems with xpra >= 0.9.0

Douglas Doole dougdoole at gmail.com
Wed May 22 02:21:15 BST 2013


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?


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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