Re: X selection and KDE

[Tom Culliton <culliton@xxxxxx>]

It points me in the direction of some experiments at least.

When I highlight something with the mouse in xjed (left click, hold,
drag, release) it does not remain highlighted.  Since X depends on the
application to provide the current selection this may be relevant.

I was able to reproduce the "3 or fewer character 'work'" behaviour.

I started "tail -f .xsession-errors" and began playing selection games.
Selecting anything over 3 characters produced a long string of the
following message starting when I released the left button.  They seem
to continue until I create another mouse event by clicking elsewhere:

WARNING: KDE detected X Error: BadAtom (invalid Atom parameter) 5
  Major opcode:  17

Trolling through the jed xterm.c code it looks like this must either
happen when x_region_2_selection is called, or more likely when klipper
makes requests (polling?) for the current selection and send_selection
calls XChangeProperty/XSendEvent to return it.

On Tue, 27 May 2003 09:44:59 -0400 John E. Davis wrote:
> Tom Culliton <culliton@xxxxxx> wrote:
> >I have this same problem with xjed.  Basically anything using the KDE
> >clipboard (konsole, klipper, ...) fails, while things that use Xt or GTK
> >(rxvt, sylpheed, ...) seem ok.
> 
> Does http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/clipboards.txt shed some
> light on the issue?  Note that xjed has no support for the CLIPBOARD
> selection protocol.
> 
> Thanks,
> --John
> 
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