Clipboard and XDCMP

[Harold L Hunt II]

Staf Verhaegen wrote:

> ryan@htsoft.com wrote:
> 
>> Staf,
>>
>> Can you copy and paste into the gdm login prompt? If so check the 
>> killinitclients line in the gdm config file. I have similar issues, 
>> and turning off killinitclients is not an option, but I havn't had the 
>> time to look into it, so I shan't complain.
>>
>> Ryan.
> 
> 
> I can copy and paste in the login prompt so probably the killinitclients 
> option is the fault. Maybe an entry for the FAQ ?
> Maybe I propose a change for the X server then ? Can't the clipboard 
> handler be restarted once when it is deleted ? This will let the 
> clipboard function also for gdm with killinitclients on.

Of course it could be restarted... but I do not recall if the code is 
clean enough to be able to stop in the middle of a clipboard request, 
clean up properly, and reinitialize properly.  I would have to do some 
work just to make sure that that is possible.

Another thing that I had worked on was making the clipboard client not 
show up from the functions that return all windows attached to the 
system.  I didn't like that approach because I had to duplicate nearly 
90% of the code from the underlying function, rather than just changing 
its behavior slightly with a before or after modification.

I dunno... it works pretty well for me for the moment and I think we 
have some higher priority problems like crashes.

Harold