Re: CLIPBOARD selection doesn't save content

2010-04-08 Thread Quintus
Hi again, First of all, there was a little mistake in my posted code: xevt.xselectionrequest.requestor, wanted_atoms[i], requested, 32, PropModeReplace, (unsigned char *) TEST, 4); Should have been xevt.xselectionrequest.requestor, wanted_atoms[i], requested, 8, PropModeReplace, (unsigned

Re: CLIPBOARD selection doesn't save content

2010-04-05 Thread Quintus
Hi all, I managed to get it work now! Many thanks to you all, without the resources you pointed me to I wouldn't have been able to finish this. So, here's the code: - /* *call-seq: * Clipboard.write(clipboard, text) == nil * *Writes +text+ to the

Re: CLIPBOARD selection doesn't save content

2010-04-04 Thread Quintus
Hi Glynn, Apart from implementing the CLIPBOARD selection, the application should implement the SAVE_TARGETS protocol for optimum behaviour with modern clipboard managers. For details, see: OK, I've done so (hopefully). http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/ClipboardManager After rereading this

Re: CLIPBOARD selection doesn't save content

2010-04-04 Thread Glynn Clements
Quintus wrote: Apart from implementing the CLIPBOARD selection, the application should implement the SAVE_TARGETS protocol for optimum behaviour with modern clipboard managers. For details, see: OK, I've done so (hopefully). http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/ClipboardManager After

Re: CLIPBOARD selection doesn't save content

2010-04-03 Thread Quintus
Hi, If you can, try it under gnome too That's quite easy to do - I'm already working under GNOME, I never tried KDE. as the last time I worked with any clipboard code, I found its clipboard manager more cooperative at saving non-standard data-types than when testing under KDE. Is text a

Re: CLIPBOARD selection doesn't save content

2010-04-03 Thread Peter Clifton
On Sat, 2010-04-03 at 11:09 +0200, Quintus wrote: Hi, If you can, try it under gnome too That's quite easy to do - I'm already working under GNOME, I never tried KDE. Ok, I was tired, and misread Ubuntu Karmic for Kbuntu for some reason! as the last time I worked with any clipboard

Re: CLIPBOARD selection doesn't save content

2010-04-03 Thread Quintus
I think I'm facing a window manager problem. When I try to get into how the GTK functions solve the CLIPBOARD problem and even if I could implement this in my function: If somebody now tries this on a KDE distro like Kubuntu or openSUSE or on one with Xfce - that wouldn't work. It seems like I

Re: CLIPBOARD selection doesn't save content

2010-04-03 Thread Glynn Clements
Quintus wrote: Now, I'm trying to implement writing, only for the CLIPBOARD selection, since that one's contents should persist across program death.I know, I have to acquire CLIPBOARD's ownership; afterwards the xclipboard process would send me a TARGETS request asking me what data I

CLIPBOARD selection doesn't save content

2010-04-02 Thread Quintus
Hi there, OK, this is kind of a longer story. Since ~4 weeks I'm trying to create a C extension for the Ruby programming language (I'm sure you don't have to know Ruby to answer this question, since it's almost C code) that allows to read from and write to the X clipboards. I've searched through