Changes between Version 25 and Version 26 of Clipboard

Timestamp:

03/12/17 11:26:45 (5 years ago)

Author:

Antoine Martin

Comment:

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Clipboard

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 Clipboard support is an ongoing struggle.
 
-The most common issues are:
+You must ensure that there is no other clipboard synchronization tool already running as this is very likely to interfere and cause loops.
+In particular, avoid using the clipboard synchronization from your virtualization solution if you use one (ie: virtualbox, vmware, etc), or from tools like synergy. Alternatively, you can disable xpra's clipboard instead. Just avoid running both at the same time.
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+The most common platform specific issues are:
 * Mac OSX and MS Windows clients only have a single clipboard selection whereas X11 has three ({{{CLIPBOARD}}}, {{{PRIMARY}}} and {{{SECONDARY}}}), and therefore we need to choose which one to exchange with (see "local-clipboard" and "remote-clipboard" switches)
 * on MS Windows, the OS pulls clipboard data as soon as we claim ownership of the selection (see workaround in r3051 + r3075)
 * on OSX, we have to use polling to see client-side changes (see #11)
+* the HTML5 client can only access the clipboard when the browser decides it is appropriate to do so (usually following clicks or specific key combinations)
 * the xpra clibboard code is also problematic: the [/browser/xpra/trunk/src/xpra/gtk_common/nested_main.py nested main loop] code is known to cause serious problems on some platforms
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