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Bug 2926

Summary: clipboard freeze and failure
Product: SDL Reporter: dkived
Component: *don't know*Assignee: Ryan C. Gordon <icculus>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: Sam Lantinga <slouken>
Severity: normal    
Priority: P2 Keywords: target-2.0.4
Version: HG 2.0   
Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Linux   

Description dkived 2015-03-28 18:44:43 UTC 
I'm having issues with the clipboard handling on Linux. Pasting into the SDL2 application doesn't have any issues. Copying from the SDL2 application and pasting into another usually works, but has issues with some applications. For example, when I copy from an SDL2 application and try to paste into Chrome, the Chrome tab freezes until I close the SDL2 application. When I try to paste into a Wine application, nothing is pasted. There may be other places this issue presents itself, but these are the ones I have noticed.

This does not happen when using other clipboard implementations, such as the gtk3 clipboard, xsel, or the pygame (SDL1) clipboard.

I originally discovered this issue when using Kivy (http://kivy.org, https://github.com/kivy/kivy) with SDL2 clipboard, but I have also duplicated it using code from an SDL2 clipboard tutorial (http://lazyfoo.net/tutorials/SDL/32_text_input_and_clipboard_handling/index.php).
Comment 1 Ryan C. Gordon 2015-05-29 17:49:14 UTC 
I'm going to poke at this a bit and see what is going wrong.

--ryan.
Comment 2 Ryan C. Gordon 2015-06-04 19:42:48 UTC 
This is now fixed in https://hg.libsdl.org/SDL/rev/92472fcca43f

--ryan.