> You can do some testing with xclip[0] which allows you to manipulate > the clipboard and also see requests made to xclip from X to see > what's going on. If run with the -quiet flag it will stay in the > foreground and notify you of every request it gets. That way you can > see if the clipboard sharing program is passing on the requests to the x > client that currently has the selection.
I have xclip installed, but the -quiet flag doesn't seem to work as you say it should. > Or just attach a debugger to st and see what's different between the > first requests that work and the second ones that don't. That might be > even easier. Yeah, but its something that would be tough to do during work. I'll see what I can do though. > st with scrollback: https://github.com/strake/st Ok, I figured it already existed. I bother with the patch then.