[BRLTTY] Regression: Making selection in BRLTTY clear X clipboard

[Aura Kelloniemi]

Hello,

On 2021-11-07 at 21:02 +0100, Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org> wrote:
 > Aura Kelloniemi, le dim. 07 nov. 2021 20:31:36 +0200, a ecrit:
 > > Also, orca announces all X clipboard events. When I select text with BRLTTY,
 > > it does not announce any clipboard changes.

 > AIUI that's an explicit notification from gtk applications, that BRLTTY
 > doesn't do indeed.

Sometimes though it has happened that if I select text with BRLTTY in a VT,
orca announces "Text copied to clipboard." This does not happen any more. I
don't remember whether this was consistent or not.

Anyhow, the fix that you provided works. Both LibreOffice and Firefox work
again. But 'xclip -o' still does not work consistently.

I wonder what broke them?

The following thoughts might be off-topic, but I put them here just in case:

There is something weird in my X clipboard. If I select text in an application
with keyboard, the text is pasteable (in any application) only as long as the
original application is running. If I quit the originating program, the
clipboard once again is empty. I don't know much about X, but I believe this
should not be the case.

-- 
Aura