test case for clipboard hang?

[Harold L Hunt II]

Lev,

Lev Bishop wrote:

> However, I've repeated the following procedure 3 times and it worked the
> same each time -- probably not a minimal test case but it shows the
> problem. I have to follow the steps precisely in order, though:
> 
> 1) Reboot
> 2) start a fresh xwin, xterm, notepad, and put some text in the xterm and 
> notepad
> 3) select, ^C copy from notepad, middle-click in xterm. it pastes 
> successfully
> 4) select in xterm, leave the text reverse-videoed
> 5) ^V paste into notepad (successfully)
> 6) drop the selection in xterm (by left clicking somewhere)
> 7) ^V paste into notepad (successfully, even though the selection is 
> dropped)
> 8) select a different piece of text in xterm.
> 9) drop the selection in xterm
> 10) ^V paste into notepad: it hangs for a few seconds and doesn't paste. 
> (The paste menu option is NOT greyed out at this point).

Yes, that is reproducible for me now.  I think I have some ideas as to 
what might be causing the problem.

Harold