copy and paste problem between epoch & xwindows

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2 total messages Started by M J Sawar Fri, 17 May 1991 11:49

#1966

Author: M J Sawar
Date: Fri, 17 May 1991 11:49

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I am having a problem with copy and paste between epoch window 
and some other X11 window. When I start up Xwindows and epoch, 
copy and paste between epoch and xwindows works fine. But when I do some
cut/copy and then paste in Xwindows only and then later on try to
cut/copy and paste from epoch to xwindow I dont get the new
copied stuff, but what I copied previously in xwindow.

I feel that the X copy buffer is not getting updated by
epoch once it gets updated locally by some other process.

How can I get around it or fix it.

p.s: I am using epoch rel 3.2


M.J.Sawar

Re: copy and paste problem between epoch & xwindows

#1967

Author: Simon Kaplan
Date: Fri, 17 May 1991 19:07

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In article <706.9105171149@cbl.leeds.ac.uk> sawar@cbl.leeds.ac.uk (M J Sawar) writes:

   I am having a problem with copy and paste between epoch window 
   and some other X11 window. When I start up Xwindows and epoch, 
   copy and paste between epoch and xwindows works fine. But when I do some
   cut/copy and then paste in Xwindows only and then later on try to
   cut/copy and paste from epoch to xwindow I dont get the new
   copied stuff, but what I copied previously in xwindow.

   I feel that the X copy buffer is not getting updated by
   epoch once it gets updated locally by some other process.

   How can I get around it or fix it.

   p.s: I am using epoch rel 3.2

The problem is that 3.2 still supports the old "cut buffer" stuff, and some
(most?) X applications have moved to the idea of selections.  Colas nahaboo
posted a "quick fix" patch for this problem (Colas, could you please
repost?) and we are working on a more general solution, which should be in
4.x when it is released, probably in early fall.

Sorry we cant be more helpful at this time...

Simon
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