On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 11:14:15PM +0100, Bram Moolenaar wrote: > Yue Wu wrote: > > Today I read a article about xorg's ClipboardPersistence bug [1],
Calling it a bug is a bit of a misnomer. It was a choice made during the design of X. Attempting to define a defacto standard way to interact with clipboard managers just makes it easier for people who want to use clipboard managers to experience the behavior they expect. > > vim is > > in the affected broken application list, and I'm sure the bug is still in > > vim. My question is, do you know this bug? Will it get fixed in future? > > > > [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ClipboardPersistence > > It works just fine for me: Visually select some text and exit Vim. > The open a new Vim and middle-click to paste the text previously > selected. I wonder in what situation it doesn't work. If one of the applications involved doesn't know how to use CUT_BUFFER0, either to store the selection when it exits or to pull from if an application doesn't currently own the selection. If the selected text is non-latin1, since that's all CUT_BUFFER0 supports. If the selection was anything other than text. > It seems that page mistakes the X selection for a clipboard, those are > two differen things. The clipboard and selection are treated the same by X, in terms of not being preserved when the application asserting ownership exits. The current "solution" to this problem is to run a clipboard manager so that there is always something running that holds the clipboard data. The referred wiki page discusses a proposed standard way for working with such clipboard managers. -- James GPG Key: 4096R/331BA3DB 2011-12-05 James McCoy <[email protected]>
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