[Spice-devel] [PATCH spice-gtk 0/2] clipboard: skip release between grabs

[Victor Toso]

Hi James,

If you have the time, could you give this a try?

Cheers,

On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 01:21:32PM +0100, marcandre.lureau at redhat.com wrote:
> From: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau at redhat.com>
> 
> Hi,
> 
> There has been several reports of clipboard issues that seem related
> to clipboard managers interactions. Although it's not crystal clear
> what are the problems, we realized the spice protocol does't handle
> well conflicting grabs coming simultaneously from client and remote.
> Each other believe the other side is the owner. This situation
> is rare, but with a clipboard manager that reacts to release events,
> it may be more easily reproducible.
> 
> Both agent & client send release between grabs today. This series
> propose to stop releasing between grabs on client side, and adds a
> 0.5s delay for the release event coming from the agent side, to filter
> out release between grabs.
> 
> Further protocol improvements should remove the need for a delay, and
> solve the conflicting situation in all cases. This will come in a
> future series.
> 
> Marc-André Lureau (2):
>   clipboard: do not release between client grabs
>   clipboard: do not release between remote grabs
> 
>  src/spice-gtk-session.c | 101 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
>  1 file changed, 80 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> 2.21.0.4.g36eb1cb9cf
> 
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