Hi, following up here. Turns out this bug has already been reported: https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-7000965
Would appreciate it if someone would sponsor this work, as described in https://openjdk.org/contribute/, section 4. On Mon, Jan 2, 2023 at 8:00 AM Flaviu Tamas <[email protected]> wrote: > > Sometimes, the X clipboard is in some state that causes pastes to fail > with the following, or similar, stack traces: > > java.lang.NullPointerException > : Failed to retrieve atom name. > at java.desktop/sun.awt.X11.XlibWrapper.XGetAtomName(Native Method) > at java.desktop/sun.awt.X11.XAtom.getName(XAtom.java:189) > at > java.desktop/sun.awt.X11.XDataTransferer.getTargetNameForAtom(XDataTransferer.java:172) > at > java.desktop/sun.awt.X11.XDataTransferer.getNativeForFormat(XDataTransferer.java:161) > at > java.desktop/sun.awt.datatransfer.DataTransferer.getFlavorsForFormatsAsSet(DataTransferer.java:487) > at > java.desktop/sun.awt.datatransfer.SunClipboard.formatArrayAsDataFlavorSet(SunClipboard.java:342) > at > java.desktop/sun.awt.datatransfer.SunClipboard.isDataFlavorAvailable(SunClipboard.java:185) > > This is a widespread issue and very frustrating issue, see: > > - > https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/JBR-438/Clipboard-operations-arent-working-in-certain-state-of-Xorg-selection-buffers > - > https://www.google.com/search?q="Failed+to+retrieve+atom+name"+"DataTransferer"; > > Frankly, I don't understand how X works at all, or how this issue > arises. However, this same workaround was applied to Mozilla in 2010: > https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-1.9.1/rev/62f3d28797e2, and I > don't see any reasonable behavior that having this workaround in place > would break. The workaround works by simply skipping native formats > that don't have a name. > > Verified to work by running IntelliJ Clion under the modified VM and > verifying that paste from my terminal, which previously did not work, > now works. I'm not familiar with OpenJDK unit testing conventions, but > I believe this change falls under the "highly platform-dependent" > exception.
