Re: GNUstep's clipboard (Was: Changes I've been thinking of...)

[Wolfgang Lux]

Fred Kiefer wrote:

> Wolfgang Lux schrieb:
> > While at the topic of GNUstep's pasteboard: I've recently started  
> > using
> > GNUstep applications remotely through an ssh connection. This works
> > quite well for me except for copy and paste. Both interact with the
> > pasteboard server on the remote machine not with my local X  
> > server. Is
> > there any way to tell GNUstep applications to contact the gpbs  
> > server on
> > my local machine instead of the remote one?
>
> If I remember correctly (Richard will know better) you have to start
> gpbs manually
> and provide the "NSHost" parameter to it. That should get it to  
> interact
> with your local X server.

Thanks for your answer Fred. Unfortunately, it doesn't work. Even after
starting gpbs with the -NSHost argument (it took me quite a while to  
notice
that it is -NSHost and not --NSHost), the applications still  
contacted the
local gpbs server.

Browsing through the source, I found that the +_pbs method of  
NSPasteboard
always contacts the local pasteboard server unless the NSHost user  
default
is set. Yet, if I invoke an application with a -NSHost argument, the X
backend insists on using this hostname to set the name of the X  
display to
be opened in XGServer's _initXContext method, which obviously fails  
because
my X server does not open a TCP/IP port in the first place.

Wolfgang