Xpra: Ticket #621: clipboard code should not compress in the UI thread, not assume zlib

Difficulty is that the clipboard knows nothing about compression feature availability, as it is not directly tied to a client connection, at least on the server. When a new client comes in, we just hand over the clipboard instance...

Also, it does not have access to the per-client encoding thread, which would be the ideal place for slotting the compression work...



Wed, 30 Jul 2014 14:27:31 GMT - Antoine Martin: owner, status changed

Groundwork done in r7041, we no longer assume zlib.

Remains:


Thu, 31 Jul 2014 04:59:39 GMT - Antoine Martin: status changed; resolution set

Some ugly code remains in compressed_wrapper calls, but that is now well isolated and can be dealt with later.


Sat, 23 Jan 2021 05:01:08 GMT - migration script:

this ticket has been moved to: https://github.com/Xpra-org/xpra/issues/621