[BRLTTY] Cut and paste creates clipboard bugs

[MENGUAL Jean-Philippe]

Le 02/11/2020 à 01:39, Samuel Thibault a écrit :
> Hello,
> 
> MENGUAL Jean-Philippe, le mar. 27 oct. 2020 12:21:23 +0100, a ecrit:
>> BRLTTY 6.1. I run one session with a Handytech braille screen, and one with:
>> brltty -b ba -x a2 --release-device -X type=terminal
>>
>> in the GUI session under MATE.
> 
> I guess you are using the mate-terminal?

Yes

> 
>> 1. On the terminal, select a region and copy it (or cut it) via brltty keys
>> 2. Switch to another apps via alt-tab
>> 3. Select a text and press ctrl-x
>> 4. Try to paste with ctrl-v
>>
>> result: does not work always.
> 
> It couldn't reproduce the issue.

Not surprised, it is not completely permanent.

> 
> Could you recompile xbrlapi from brltty master, with #define DEBUG
> uncommented, and run it with its stderr redirected to some file, and
> send me the file?

I have not done it for a long, could you just tell me the process? make 
xbrlapi? Or make from the xbrlapi dir in the brltty tree?

> 
>> I also will try to see how to report crash bugs, the terminal brltty becomes
>> unstable.
> 
> Perhaps when using cursor routing? This is probably fragile due to
> fork() while running atspi.

It seems, yes. See the bug report I did about this some minutes ago

Regards

> 
> Samuel
>