Re: x5250 seg fault

On Wed, 20 May 2009, James Rich wrote:

On Wed, 20 May 2009, James Rich wrote:

But no matter. Following your steps of hightlight -> Edit -> Copy ->
middle click causes x5250 to crash for me, so at last I can reproduce the
problem. Now to find a solution...

And here it is:

That got a little mangled. It might be better to download the patch from:

http://www.chowhouse.com/~james/x5250/pastepatch.patch

Note that this fixes the crash but a problem remains. x5250 retrieves the data to be pasted using XGetWindowProperty(). For some reason XGetWindowProperty() returns an empty list from gvim, yet still returns successfully. That means that x5250 no longer crashes, but it also doesn't paste any text from gvim using the Edit->Copy method. The normal unix way of left button highlight and middle button paste still works.

Sean, what happens when you do Edit->Copy and then middle button into xterm? When I do that xterm doesn't paste the Edit->Copy buffer, but rather whatever I had previously highlighted with the left mouse button. x5250 is now doing the same thing that xterm does for me with this patch.

James Rich

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when you're done reading them :)
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