On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 9:55 AM, Grigorios Bouzakis <grbzks@xxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > Yaro Kasear wrote: > > On Wednesday, April 13, 2011 20:45:32 Grigorios Bouzakis wrote: > >> This feature request: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/23747 > >> > >> ---- > >> Greg > > > > Is this some sort of configuration utility for Xorg? A little background > would > > be nice. > > > > Autocutsel is not part of the X suite. It changes the way the X > clipboards work. > http://www.nongnu.org/autocutsel > > "X servers use two schemes to copy text between applications. The first > one (old and deprecated) is the cutbuffer. It is a simple buffer in > which any application can store text. The other scheme is the selection > and works differently. There may be many selections in a single server. > An application does not copy data in a selection, it "owns" it. When > another application wants to retreive the content of a selection, it > asks the owner. > > Recent desktop applications (GNOME, KDE, ...) use two selections: the > PRIMARY and the CLIPBOARD. The PRIMARY selection is used when you select > some text with the mouse. You usually paste it using the middle button. > The CLIPBOARD selection is used when you copy text by using, for > example, the Edit/Copy menu. You may paste it using the Edit/Paste menu. > > Windows VNC clients keep the Windows clipboard synchronized with the > cutbuffer, but not with the selections. And since recent applications > don't use the cutbuffer, the server's CLIPBOARD is never synchronized > with Windows' one. > > Autocutsel tracks changes in the server's cutbuffer and CLIPBOARD > selection. When the CLIPBOARD is changed, it updates the cutbuffer. When > the cutbuffer is changed, it owns the CLIPBOARD selection. The cutbuffer > and CLIPBOARD selection are always synchronized. Since the VNC client > synchronizes the Windows' clipboard and the server's cutbuffer, all > three "clipboards" are always kept synchronized. When you copy some text > in Windows, the cutbuffer and the CLIPBOARD selection are updated. When > you copy text on the server using either the cutbuffer or the CLIPBOARD > selection, the Windows's clipboard is always updated. > > You can also use autocutsel to track the PRIMARY selection to copy text > when it's selected. To do this, simply run autocutsel with the arguments > "-s PRIMARY" > > Some softwares (like Open Office Writer) have trouble when the PRIMARY > selection is requested before the mouse button is released. As a > workaround, you can run autocutsel with the "-buttonup" option and it > will only get the selection when the first mouse button is not pressed." > does this fix the problem that i can not directly copy-paste from java applications into gnome-terminal? although it seems to be working in places where i can ctrl+v.
