[gentoo-user] Re: xfreerdp clipboard not working

[Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com>]

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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