[Spice-devel] spice-vdagent[$PID]: clipboard: unexpected selection type STRING

[Hans de Goede]

Hi,

On 08/08/2013 01:51 PM, Thomas Koch wrote:
> On Thursday, August 08, 2013 01:08:46 PM Hans de Goede wrote:
>> This sounds like something in the guest is polling the clipboard owner
>> (which at this point is the agent) for data repeatedly and doing so in a
>> manner which does not follow the icccm specification.
>
> Thank you very much. Since you suggested that it's a guest application I've
> killed them one by one and found an autocutsel process in the guest to be
> guilty. (I thought I would not use it in the guest.)

Thanks, that explains a lot.

> This message however still appears (but only once) when I select a text in the
> host:
>
> spice-vdagent[3676]: primary: received release while not owning client
> clipboard
>
> Do you still need me to try it with the patch or do you have all information
> now?

No I've enough information now, since we cannot go and fix all the broken X11
clients out there (such as autocutsel), I've changed the messages in question
to only be logged when verbose logging has been requested.

Thanks,

Hans