Package: xterm
Version: 333-1
Severity: normal
I was working on my .Xresources and found this quite crazy.
I could not select PRIMARY and CLIPBOARD independent of each
other. To reproduce, I chose to have *only* the lines from
the manual page…
*VT100*translations:#override \n\
~Shift~Ctrl: insert-selection(PRIMARY, CUT_BUFFER0) \n\
Shift~Ctrl: insert-selection(CLIPBOARD, CUT_BUFFER1) \n\
~Shift : select-end(PRIMARY, CUT_BUFFER0) \n\
Shift : select-end(CLIPBOARD, CUT_BUFFER1)
… loaded with “xrdb -merge filename”, with no .Xresources
at all, then I started two xterms, in one I selected, in
another, I ran xsel commands to discern what is the content
of PRIMARY and CLIPBOARD, respectively.
tglase@tglase-nb:~ $ echo "P<$(xsel -p -o)> C<$(xsel -b -o)>"
P<> C<>
tglase@tglase-nb:~ $ echo "P<$(xsel -p -o)> C<$(xsel -b -o)>"
P C<>
tglase@tglase-nb:~ $ echo "P<$(xsel -p -o)> C<$(xsel -b -o)>"
P C
tglase@tglase-nb:~ $ echo "P<$(xsel -p -o)> C<$(xsel -b -o)>"
P C
After the first command I selected “foo” without Shift.
⇒ as expected, PRIMARY gets assigned “foo”, CLIPBOARD is left alone
After the second command I selected “bar” with Shift.
⇒ unexpectedly, PRIMARY *also* gets “bar” in addition to CLIPBOARD
After the third line, I selected “foo” without Shift again.
⇒ unexpectedly, CLIPBOARD *also* gets “foo” in addition to PRIMARY
For comparison, here’s the same sequence of things on MirBSD,
with xterm 200 on XFree86:
tg@blau:~ $ echo "P<$(xsel -p -o)> C<$(xsel -b -o)>"
P<> C<>
tg@blau:~ $ echo "P<$(xsel -p -o)> C<$(xsel -b -o)>"
P C<>
tg@blau:~ $ echo "P<$(xsel -p -o)> C<$(xsel -b -o)>"
P C
tg@blau:~ $ echo "P<$(xsel -p -o)> C<$(xsel -b -o)>"
P C<>
For that, I used this in .Xresources though:
*VT100*translations: #override \n\
Shift~CtrlInsert:insert-selection(PRIMARY, CUT_BUFFER0) \n\
Shift CtrlInsert:insert-selection(CLIPBOARD, CUT_BUFFER1) \n\
~Shift~Ctrl:insert-selection(PRIMARY, CUT_BUFFER0) \n\
Shift~Ctrl:insert-selection(CLIPBOARD, CUT_BUFFER1) \n\
~Shift:select-end(PRIMARY, CUT_BUFFER0) \n\
Shift:select-end(CLIPBOARD, CUT_BUFFER1)
(Actually, do I need a trailing \n or \n\ after the last line?)
Here, selecting “foo” without Shift again *clears* CLIPBOARD
instead of assigning to it. Still buggy.
I was considering not using cut buffers in xterm 333 on X.org:
*VT100*translations: #override \n\
Shift~CtrlInsert:insert-selection(PRIMARY) \n\
Shift CtrlInsert:insert-selection(CLIPBOARD) \n\
~Shift~Ctrl:insert-selection(PRIMARY) \n\
Shift~Ctrl:insert-selection(CLIPBOARD) \n\
~Shift:select-end(PRIMARY) \n\
Shift:select-end(CLIPBOARD) \n\
Anyway, from the above tests I concur that this never worked
as documented and still does not work as documented.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
APT prefers unstable-debug
APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.16.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=C (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/lksh
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
Versions of packages xterm depends on:
ii libc6 2.27-3
ii libfontconfig1 2.13.0-5
ii libfreetype62.8.1-2
ii libice6 2:1.0.9-2
ii libtinfo6 6.1+20180210-3
ii libutempter01.1.6-3
ii libx11-62:1.6.5-1
ii libxaw7 2:1.0.13-1+b2
ii libxft2 2.3.2-2
ii libxinerama12:1.1.3-1+b3
ii libxmu6 2:1.1.2-2
ii libxpm4 1:3.5.12-1
ii libxt6 1:1.1.5-1
ii xbitmaps1.1.1-2
Versions of packages xterm recommends:
ii x11-utils 7.7+4
Versions of packages xterm suggests:
pn xfonts-cyrillic
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