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From: Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org>
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2015 20:54:06 -0400
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xfreerdp clipboard not working
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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.