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[David Allouche <address@hidden>]

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 20:02, Norbert Nemec <address@hidden> wrote:
> Cut and paste certainly is confusing. I spent a few minutes sorting through
> the current state of affairs, but I didn't get far.
>
> For anyone who wants to look into it, a good starting point seems to be:
>
>   http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/ClipboardsWiki
>
> I think this is the behavior TeXmacs should aim at as well. Does the current
> code already try to implement this standard? In that case, it seems to be
> buggy in some details, but it is hard to sort through the strange behavior
> in various situations, interacting with various other clients...

Here is a tentative patch.

I could not test it because any attempt to run a from-source build of
texmacs gives me the "Fatal error: Tex seems not to be installed
properly in 'load_tex'". Of course, I have a texmacs package
installed, so I have all the runtime dependencies. Running Ubuntu
Intrepid.

At least, it compiles.
Index: src/Plugins/X11/x_gui.cpp
===================================================================
RCS file: /texmacs/src/src/Plugins/X11/x_gui.cpp,v
retrieving revision 1.9
diff -U3 -r1.9 x_gui.cpp
--- src/Plugins/X11/x_gui.cpp   13 Oct 2008 16:54:39 -0000      1.9
+++ src/Plugins/X11/x_gui.cpp   21 Jan 2009 21:58:43 -0000
@@ -219,13 +219,14 @@
     return true;
   }
   if (key != "primary") return false;
-  if (XGetSelectionOwner (dpy, XA_PRIMARY) == None) return false;
+  Atom clipboard= XInternAtom (dpy, "CLIPBOARD", false);
+  if (XGetSelectionOwner (dpy, clipboard) == None) return false;
   
   if (is_nil (windows_l)) return false;
   Window win= windows_l->item;
   x_window x_win= (x_window) Window_to_window[win];
   Atom data= XInternAtom (dpy, "MY_STRING_SELECTION", false);
-  XConvertSelection (dpy, XA_PRIMARY, XA_STRING, data, win, CurrentTime);
+  XConvertSelection (dpy, clipboard, XA_STRING, data, win, CurrentTime);
 
   int i;
   XEvent ev;
@@ -263,8 +264,9 @@
     if (is_nil (windows_l)) return false;
     Window win= windows_l->item;
     if (selection!=NULL) delete[] selection;
-    XSetSelectionOwner (dpy, XA_PRIMARY, win, CurrentTime);
-    if (XGetSelectionOwner(dpy, XA_PRIMARY)==None) return false;
+    Atom clipboard= XInternAtom (dpy, "CLIPBOARD", false);
+    XSetSelectionOwner (dpy, clipboard, win, CurrentTime);
+    if (XGetSelectionOwner(dpy, clipboard)==None) return false;
     selection= as_charp (s);
   }
   return true;