Re: test case for clipboard hang?

[Ed Avis <ed at membled dot com>]

Harold L Hunt II <huntharo <at> msu.edu> writes:

>>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).

>I'd really appreciate some feedback on the new fix in 
>XFree86-xserv-4.3.0-63, which should be hitting mirrors within a few hours.

Yes, I can reproduce the hang with 4.3.0-50 (actually, I used xemacs not xterm)
but it does not hang in 4.3.0-63.  After I drop the X selection it is no longer
in the Windows clipboard, so that I cannot paste into Notepad.  I don't know if
this is consistent with cut and paste on a native X desktop, but it is a massive
improvement over hanging.  Thanks!

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Ed Avis <ed@membled.com>