Hi Daniel,

> I've used xrdp with X11rdp for some time but the clipboard problems
> are getting difficult to live with, I cut & paste text between
> windows/sessions all the time and sometimes it's almost impossible to
> get it to work. As a last resort I've pasted the text into a mail and
> sent it to myself in a web e-mail account ... a very slow and
> cumbersome "clipboard".
>
> As I understand it, there are three clipboards in X/Gnome/Linux; the
> cutbuffer, the "clipboard" selection and the "primary" selection. The
> cutbuffer is old and deprecated. The "clipboard" selection is used for
> Ctrl+C/V and Copy/Paste menu. The "primary" selection is for mouse
> selection and pasting (usually pasted with middle mouse button). There
> are some utilities that can synchronize the different clipboards, but
> they do not seem to do it perfectly (I haven't tried them all, just
> parcellite).
>
> I've noticed that xrdp only seems to support the "clipboard"
> selection, i e Ctrl+C/V and Copy/Paste menu. Is that correct?
>
> Are there any plans to extend the functionality in xrdp to support the
> "primary" selection too?

Yes, I too have noticed the clipboard is incomplete.
I though that PRIMARY was not used anymore but it seems like we need to add it.
Is anyone interested in work on this?  I can't get to it for a while.

Jay

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