test case for clipboard hang?

Lev Bishop lev.bishop@yale.edu
Tue Mar 30 20:54:00 GMT 2004


Harold wrote:
> Simple test case: don't use "-clipboard", select some text in a xterm,
> unselect it, then right-click in another xterm... I don't think you'll
> see any text pasted unless there is a clipboard manager of some sort
> running (i.e. don't do this in Xdmcp).

Actually, you generally *will* see text pasted in this situation: xterm,
as it is usually configured, makes use of CUT_BUFFER0, the obsolete way of 
doing cutting and pasting, that is more like windows than x selections.

Lev



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