[X2Go-User] Clipboard stops working

Ulrich Sibiller uli42 at gmx.de
Fri Mar 8 18:11:28 CET 2019


On Fri, Mar 8, 2019 at 12:17 AM Norm Green
<norm.green at gemtalksystems.com> wrote:
>
>
> > But how about this: I could implement some keystroke that dumps the
> > current clipboard state and re-initializes the clipboard. Using those
> > dumps might help finding the reason for this odd behaviour.
> That would be fine.  Please advise on next steps.

What distribution are you using?

> > Two more things:
> > - One workaround that usually works is to copy some text to the
> > clipboard on both sides of the connection. Most of the time it will
> > become usable again.
> Thanks, I will try that next time it happens.

let me know if it helps.

> > - you could also try to replace the X server of X2go (VcXsrv) by the
> > one from mobaxterm and see if the problems persists. We had reports
> > that indicated vcxsrv might be the real problem.
> I would consider that as a last resort. Let's see if your first two
> ideas pan out before taking this step.

As you like. But I would use this as the first step because it is easily done.

Uli


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