test case for clipboard hang?

[Harold L Hunt II]

Lev,

Lev Bishop wrote:

> Harold: you wanted a test case for the clipboard hang. I can do it this 
> way, using only xterm and notepad:
> 
> 1) open xterm and notepad
> 2) type some stuff in the xterm
> 3) left click and drag to select text in the xterm (it gets highlighted) - 
> let go of the mouse, and the text stays highlighted in reverse video.
> 4) single left click somewhere else in the xterm - the reverse video 
> highlighting of the selection is removed
> 5) bring the focus to notepad and ^V to paste: it hangs for 3secs and 
> doesn't paste (previously it would have hung completely).
> 
> Note 1: if in between steps 3 and 4 you paste into notepad, it works, and 
> even if you continue to step 5 it still works, you have to do it in that 
> order.
> 
> Note 2: Even after step 5 you can still paste X->X, ie middle-click in a 
> different xterm and the paste goes through. (Maybe now it gets it from the 
> CUT_BUFFER0 instead of from PRIMARY, the xterm manual states that 
> selecting text puts it in both PRIMARY and in CUT_BUFFER0 -- presumably 
> step 4 removes PRIMARY but does nothing to CUT_BUFFER0).

I can't reproduce this at all.

The behavior I get is that in step 5 if you press Ctrl+V nothing happens 
(no delay, no pasting) and if you right click the context menu entry for 
"Paste" is greyed out (since X released ownership of the selection).

So, what version of Windows are you running and are you doing anything 
with multiple languages or locales?

Harold