Re: [bug #4658] Broken gpbs when doing pb operations between GS and X

[Stefan Urbanek]

On 2003-08-08 11:58:45 +0200 Kazunobu Kuriyama <kazunobu.kuriyama@nifty.com> 
wrote:

> nobody@savannah.gnu.org wrote:
>
> > Summary: Broken gpbs when doing pb operations between GS and X
> >
> > Original Submission: 1. It is not possible to copy from GNUstep and paste in X 
> > app strings which contain non latin-1 characters.
>
> Did you really copy a region you selected with a GNUstep app before trying to 
> paste
> it on an X app?  Only specifying a selected region (i.e., making the background 
> gray)
> is not sufficient for paste; before trying it, you need to explicitly invoke 
> the GNUstep
> app's 'copy' once after you specify a selected region.  Please make sure the 
> GNUstep's
> copy and paste operation differs from that of ordinary X apps.  You can't do 
> copy and
> paste even for latin-1 characters unless you do copy before paste.

Sure I know that!

<snip>

> > 3. GNUstep apps used to freeze for a while (waiting for X selection) when 
> > pasting from X apps.
>
> Copy and paste is a costly operation.

Well, 'the while' = 20-30+ seconds and result is nothing (understand: no paste 
at all).

> > 4. Sometimes it works, after i do lots of various cut&pastes.
>
> I feel the comment on 1 also applies here.

It does not, because I am using standard way of copying in GNUstep. It seems to 
be at random ... (...now trying, to be sure again...) ...ok, at this time it 
does not work either way. Same result for 1. and for 2.

> | I'm using CVS from 6 Aug 2003 and I am experiencing this only for short time.
>
> Probably, you got accustomed to the GNUstep's copy and paste operation...

Well, see my previous comments :)

Best regards,

Stefan Urbanek
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