After the long debate yesterday about clipboards sucking major eggs and
stuff I started looking into the problem. One of the problems is that
xterm doesn't honor the "Keep Selection" flag. The code is a little
tangly but if I read it correctly it looks like a simple test was
missed. This brings xterm in line with all other applications
(including gtk ones) where, by default, if a selection is cleared on the
screen it ISN'T cleared from PRIMARY. People who desire the clearing of
PRIMARY should use the "XTerm*keepSelection: false" setting as described
in the manual.
This is just step one. The rest of the issues seem to be hidden in gtk.
Index: button.c
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RCS file: /cvs/xenocara/app/xterm/button.c,v
retrieving revision 1.17
diff -u -p -u -p -r1.17 button.c
--- button.c 7 Mar 2011 20:41:27 -0000 1.17
+++ button.c 17 Aug 2011 21:01:24 -0000
@@ -3890,7 +3890,7 @@ DisownSelection(XtermWidget xw)
for (i = 0; i < count; i++) {
int cutbuffer = CutBuffer(atoms[i]);
- if (cutbuffer < 0) {
+ if (!screen->keepSelection && cutbuffer < 0) {
XtDisownSelection((Widget) xw, atoms[i],
screen->selection_time);
}
