Hi everybody, I started using st at work on my work computers. At work we all use linux boxes supplied by the company and we don't get full control over them. I love st, I think it is by far the nicest terminal emulator available, however, I needed scroll back and copy paste support to play nice with some of the work software that we use, on of them being synergy. So, I downloaded st 0.5 and attempted to apply the scroll back and clipboard paste patches from suckless.org, however, clipboard patch applies with no issues, but appears to have no effect, and the scrollback patch fails to apply most of the patch. I took a look at the patch and figured out what it was trying to do and made the modifications manually and got it to compile. I am working on preparing a patch that will apply the changes to the latest version of st if it will be helpful, however, if an updated patch already exists, then I will forget about it. All I really have to do is have it not include the other changes I made and it should be good to go.
Also, the other issue I want to report is that st does not work with synergy's clipboard sharing feature. I know the X11 clipboard isn't wonderful, so normally I would just chalk it up to a sucky clipboard implementation, or something with synergy. However, synergy's clipboard seems to work with all other applications, and st exhibits strange behavior. It actually pastes correctly the first time you try to paste after the application is opened, then nothing happens after that, even if the clipboard is cleared and something else it copied. The same goes for the X11 selection paste as well. For this reason I think it is a bug in st, even though it is only happening with synergy. Anything copied from the same an application on the same machine works fine, but anything copied from the remote machine using synergy fails to work correctly. I have attempted to figure this out, but the mechanism st uses seems so simple and correct according to what I know of the X11 protocol, so I can't figure it out.... However, somebody here might know st better than I do. That's all I have to say, if you guys want that patch, let me know. Also, correct me if I am wrong but I think the clipboard patch on suckless.org is obsolete because it's been merged already into st-0.5. Not sure what should be done, but seeing the patch on the site is misleading. Regards, --Philip
