[5177] in testers
Re: Console won't cut/paste in 9.1
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert A Basch)
Mon May 20 20:01:47 2002
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To: Robert A Basch <rbasch@MIT.EDU>
cc: "andrew m. boardman" <amb@MIT.EDU>, wdc@MIT.EDU, testers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 17 May 2002 19:23:08 EDT."
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Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 20:00:45 -0400
From: Robert A Basch <rbasch@MIT.EDU>
I did a bit more investigation. It appears that the problem is an
incompatibility in the set of target types now supported by gnome-terminal
vs. console (and zwgc, and maybe other applications). (The target defines
the data format type). In particular, the 9.1 gnome-terminal seems to
request the COMPOUND_TEXT target, but not STRING, while console supports
only STRING. I want to do some more checking, but I think we will be able
to fix this with a simple patch.
Bob
