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Re: Clipboard and XDCMP
Staf Verhaegen wrote:
ryan@htsoft.com wrote:
Staf,
Can you copy and paste into the gdm login prompt? If so check the
killinitclients line in the gdm config file. I have similar issues,
and turning off killinitclients is not an option, but I havn't had the
time to look into it, so I shan't complain.
Ryan.
I can copy and paste in the login prompt so probably the killinitclients
option is the fault. Maybe an entry for the FAQ ?
Maybe I propose a change for the X server then ? Can't the clipboard
handler be restarted once when it is deleted ? This will let the
clipboard function also for gdm with killinitclients on.
Of course it could be restarted... but I do not recall if the code is
clean enough to be able to stop in the middle of a clipboard request,
clean up properly, and reinitialize properly. I would have to do some
work just to make sure that that is possible.
Another thing that I had worked on was making the clipboard client not
show up from the functions that return all windows attached to the
system. I didn't like that approach because I had to duplicate nearly
90% of the code from the underlying function, rather than just changing
its behavior slightly with a before or after modification.
I dunno... it works pretty well for me for the moment and I think we
have some higher priority problems like crashes.
Harold