Bug#588785: #588785 xterm: consider supporting freedesktop.org style clipboard behavior

[Thomas Dickey <dickey@his.com>]

On Mon, 30 Aug 2010, Thomas Dickey wrote:

> On Mon, 30 Aug 2010, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote:
>
> > Thomas Dickey <dickey@his.com> writes:
> > > I saw something like that, the first time I tried the script, but am
> > > unsure where the problem lies.  But then I ran a few more times
> > > without encountering the bug (puzzled).
> > >
> > > If it's more/less reproducible, I might be able to see something with
> > > a debug-trace (unless the problem lies in the X libraries).
> >
> > I see it quite often but not always :-)
> >
> > The attached xterm.xtrace.bz2 shows how the terminal works for a while
> > but then stops responding. When it stopped responding I typed
> > "terminal is not responding" or something like that so that you can
> > find it from the trace (if you convert the keycodes back to ascii...).
>
> thanks - I'm closing out #262 now, and it seems this bug-report will
> keep me busy for a while...

I think it's likely that the unprocessed KeyRelease events are confusing
the X library.  Adding ignore's for those seems to improve it:

*VT100*translations:    #override \n\
 Shift Ctrl <KeyPress> v:insert-selection(CLIPBOARD)\n\
 Shift Ctrl <KeyRelease> v:ignore() \n\
 Shift<Btn1Down>:select-start()\n\
 Shift<Btn1Motion>:select-extend()\n\
 Shift Ctrl <KeyPress> c:select-end(CLIPBOARD)\n\
 Shift Ctrl <KeyRelease> c:ignore() \n\
 <BtnUp>:ignore() \n

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