On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 10:17:31AM +0200, Mark Kettenis wrote: > > Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 16:11:55 -0500 > > From: Marco Peereboom <ma...@peereboom.us> > > > > 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. > > Makes no sense. The keepSelection check is already done in > ScrnDisownSelection(). The only place where DisownSelection() is > called directly is SelectSet(), and that should only happen if you > explicitly shrink your selection to "nothing".
It goes down another code path. This through me for a loop but the trace shows this. > As far as I know, xterm keeps the selection just fine. If I select > some text in one xterm, then click at some random place in that same > xterm such that the text is no longer highlighted, I can paste it just > fine into another xterm using the middle mouse button. But not in any application that doesn't use CUT_BUFFER0. Which these days is about everything minus xterm. This diff brings xterm in line with everything else and as far as I can see with the man page. > > > Index: button.c > > =================================================================== > > 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); > > }