[gentoo-user] xfreerdp clipboard not working

[gentoo-user] xfreerdp clipboard not working

[Grant Edwards]

I've been using rdesktop for several years and have always been able
to use Ctrl-V on the Windows desktop to paste stuff from the X11
clipboard.

Now I need to switch to xfreerdp because rdesktop doesn't implement a
new enough version of the RDP protocol.

I can't figure out how to get the clipboard to work in xfreerdp.

I start it, and it says it's loading the clipboard plugin

$ xfreerdp +clipboard /u:xxxxxx /p:yyyyyy /v:N.N.N.N
loading channel cliprdr
connected to N.N.N.N:3389

But no ctrl-V never pastes anything from the X11 clipboard the way it
always did with rdesktop.

All I can find in Google is a bunch of people talking about which
command-line syntax to use to get it to load the clibrdr plugin, and
that doesn't seem to be the problem.

Can anybody loan me a hint?

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[gentoo-user] Re: xfreerdp clipboard not working

[Grant Edwards]

On 2015-03-25, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com> wrote:

> I start it, and it says it's loading the clipboard plugin
>
> $ xfreerdp +clipboard /u:xxxxxx /p:yyyyyy /v:N.N.N.N
> loading channel cliprdr
> connected to N.N.N.N:3389
>
> But no ctrl-V never pastes anything from the X11 clipboard the way it
> always did with rdesktop.

Um, never mind.

It has started working, but I have no idea why... :/

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[gentoo-user] Re: xfreerdp clipboard not working

[Grant Edwards]

On 2015-03-25, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2015-03-25, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I start it, and it says it's loading the clipboard plugin
>>
>> $ xfreerdp +clipboard /u:xxxxxx /p:yyyyyy /v:N.N.N.N
>> loading channel cliprdr
>> connected to N.N.N.N:3389
>>
>> But no ctrl-V never pastes anything from the X11 clipboard the way it
>> always did with rdesktop.
>
> Um, never mind.
>
> It has started working, but I have no idea why... :/

I spoke too soon.  Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.  I seems
to be completely random.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xfreerdp clipboard not working

[Alan McKinnon]

On 25/03/2015 23:46, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2015-03-25, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 2015-03-25, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I start it, and it says it's loading the clipboard plugin
>>>
>>> $ xfreerdp +clipboard /u:xxxxxx /p:yyyyyy /v:N.N.N.N
>>> loading channel cliprdr
>>> connected to N.N.N.N:3389
>>>
>>> But no ctrl-V never pastes anything from the X11 clipboard the way it
>>> always did with rdesktop.
>>
>> Um, never mind.
>>
>> It has started working, but I have no idea why... :/
> 
> I spoke too soon.  Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.  I seems
> to be completely random.
> 


Blind shot in the dark:

What does Ctrl-Shift-C/V do? And other obvious combinations also.



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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xfreerdp clipboard not working

[Mike Gilbert]

On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 5:46 PM, Grant Edwards
<grant.b.edwards@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2015-03-25, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 2015-03-25, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I start it, and it says it's loading the clipboard plugin
>>>
>>> $ xfreerdp +clipboard /u:xxxxxx /p:yyyyyy /v:N.N.N.N
>>> loading channel cliprdr
>>> connected to N.N.N.N:3389
>>>
>>> But no ctrl-V never pastes anything from the X11 clipboard the way it
>>> always did with rdesktop.
>>
>> Um, never mind.
>>
>> It has started working, but I have no idea why... :/
>
> I spoke too soon.  Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.  I seems
> to be completely random.
>

I wonder if you are running into an obscure quirk of X11. X11 actually
has 3 buffers that are clipboard-link in nature: PRIMARY, SECONDARY,
and CLIPBOARD.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_selection#Clipboard

In general, any text you select becomes the PRIMARY selection
automatically. Anything you explicitly copy via the context menu
"Copy" option becomes the CLIPBOARD selection.

Are you trying to use the X11 PRIMARY selection, or the CLIPBOARD
selection? xfreerdp looks at the CLIPBOARD selection.

[gentoo-user] Re: xfreerdp clipboard not working

[Grant Edwards]

On 2015-03-26, Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 5:46 PM, Grant Edwards><grant.b.edwards@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 2015-03-25, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On 2015-03-25, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I start it, and it says it's loading the clipboard plugin
>>>>
>>>> $ xfreerdp +clipboard /u:xxxxxx /p:yyyyyy /v:N.N.N.N
>>>> loading channel cliprdr
>>>> connected to N.N.N.N:3389
>>>>
>>>> But no ctrl-V never pastes anything from the X11 clipboard the way it
>>>> always did with rdesktop.
>>>
>>> Um, never mind.
>>>
>>> It has started working, but I have no idea why... :/
>>
>> I spoke too soon.  Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.  I seems
>> to be completely random.

> I wonder if you are running into an obscure quirk of X11. X11 actually
> has 3 buffers that are clipboard-link in nature: PRIMARY, SECONDARY,
> and CLIPBOARD.
[...]
> In general, any text you select becomes the PRIMARY selection
> automatically. Anything you explicitly copy via the context menu
> "Copy" option becomes the CLIPBOARD selection.

Yep, I use xclip to explicitly copy to CLIPBOARD whatever I want to
paste into Windows.  That always worked without problems using the
older rdesktop rdp client.

What happens with xfreerdp is that it will _sometimes_ work the first
time I do

  <somecmd> | xclip -i -selection clipboard

  [hit ctrl-V on windows]

But after that, no matter how many times I run xlicp -i again, Ctrl-V
will continue to insert the same thing (or nothing, if it didn't work
the first time).

It will always work if I do this:

  1) Select something in Windows session and hit Ctrl-C or Ctrl-X

  2) xclip -o -selection clipboard

  3) <somecmd> | xclip -i -selection clipboard

  4) Hit Ctrl-V on Windows  

I'm going to unamsk xfreerdp 1.2.0 and see if it works any better.
  
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[gentoo-user] Re: xfreerdp clipboard not working

[Grant Edwards]

On 2015-03-26, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm going to unamsk xfreerdp 1.2.0 and see if it works any better.

1.2.0 is unusable.

About 1/3 of the time, a sessions will lock up within the first couple
seconds and sit there burning 15% CPU and generating 20,000 packets
per second of network traffic.

Sometimes it goes a few more seconds and then locks up burning 95% CPU
generating no network traffic.

When a session isn't locked up it still generates a continuous 20K
packets/second even with a static desktop with nothing changing (mouse
cursor not even in the xfreerdp window).

In some such "working" sessions, the clipboard features don't work at
all.  In other "working" sessions, the cliboard feature does seem to
work reliably.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xfreerdp clipboard not working

[Fernando Rodriguez]

On Wednesday, March 25, 2015 9:46:52 PM Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2015-03-25, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 2015-03-25, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> I start it, and it says it's loading the clipboard plugin
> >>
> >> $ xfreerdp +clipboard /u:xxxxxx /p:yyyyyy /v:N.N.N.N
> >> loading channel cliprdr
> >> connected to N.N.N.N:3389
> >>
> >> But no ctrl-V never pastes anything from the X11 clipboard the way it
> >> always did with rdesktop.
> >
> > Um, never mind.
> >
> > It has started working, but I have no idea why... :/
> 
> I spoke too soon.  Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.  I seems
> to be completely random.
> 

This may not be very helpful but I can tell you that in KDE using the krdc 
frontend and klipper it works. Sometimes modifier keys stop working at all. 
When that happens I just disconnect and reconnect.

-- 
Fernando Rodriguez

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xfreerdp clipboard not working

[Mike Gilbert]

On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 11:34 AM, Grant Edwards
<grant.b.edwards@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2015-03-26, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm going to unamsk xfreerdp 1.2.0 and see if it works any better.
>
> 1.2.0 is unusable.

Personally, I maintain and use the live ebuild (freerdp-9999.1) more
than the others. I use it on an almost daily basis. It might be worth
giving that a shot. If it works better for you, I can create a new
snapshot to add to ~arch.

[gentoo-user] Re: xfreerdp clipboard not working

[Grant Edwards]

On 2015-03-26, Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 11:34 AM, Grant Edwards
><grant.b.edwards@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 2015-03-26, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm going to unamsk xfreerdp 1.2.0 and see if it works any better.
>>
>> 1.2.0 is unusable.
>
> Personally, I maintain and use the live ebuild (freerdp-9999.1) more
> than the others. I use it on an almost daily basis. It might be worth
> giving that a shot. If it works better for you, I can create a new
> snapshot to add to ~arch.

Thanks for suggesting the git ebuild (I hadn't noticed one was
available).  It looks like it's working well.  Clipboard features work
consistently, and I see none of the lockup or network traffic problems
I saw with 1.2.0.

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