[X2Go-User] Copy and paste between systems stops working

[Ulrich Sibiller]

On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 10:55 AM Stefan Baur <X2Go-ML-1 at baur-itcs.de> wrote:
> > I deeply doubt that the clipboard CONTENT is responsible for the
> > problems. That's merely a problem in the workflow.
>
> Are you sure? Some reports I received (though I'm still waiting for the
> final test results) hinted that special characters might be triggering
> it. Things outside the 7-Bit or 7-Bit+usual-Windows-codepage range.
> Things like accented characters or "unusual" whitespace (not a mere
> blank, \t, \r, or \n, of course).

Well, I argue from the code side. And there the content cannot
influence the workflow. But I am only talking about the clipboard code
in nxagent. Maybe we face a bug in the nxcomp lib here. Or in the
vcxsrv clipboard code.

> > My approach is rather adding a debug facility that can be enabled at
> > runtime instead of compile time so that a user can enable it as
> > needed.
> >
> > A zapping keystroke could be implemented but I really consider as a
> > temporary. I'd love to see the problems vanish altogether...
>
> The thing is, if you log the content of the clipboard(s) on both ends
> *before* you zap, that info might help you with debugging this.
> Think of it as a "clipboard coredump".

Of course it does not hurt. The corresponding dumping code is already
there. I think I will implement the "zap" the next days.

Uli