Hello, I am having a lot of fun with Sculpt, but I do wonder something about copy/paste. Whenever I copy a large portion of text, a subsequent paste only gives the first part. This is most noticeable within a VM, but I wonder, since the VM can move the clipboard to/from Sculpt, if a Sculpt clipboard size limit is coming into play? If so, can the clipboard be made bigger? Failing that, can I disable clipboard integration with the VM? Apologies if this was settled a long time ago.
Regards, Colin
Hello Colin,
I am having a lot of fun with Sculpt, but I do wonder something about copy/paste. Whenever I copy a large portion of text, a subsequent paste only gives the first part. This is most noticeable within a VM, but I wonder, since the VM can move the clipboard to/from Sculpt, if a Sculpt clipboard size limit is coming into play? If so, can the clipboard be made bigger? Failing that, can I disable clipboard integration with the VM? Apologies if this was settled a long time ago.
I'm actually also struggling with the VBox clipboard integration currently. E.g., the X buffer sometimes delivers truncated or even completely botched content. Other times, the mechanism works perfectly. So I'm not yet able to pin-point the problem. Once I cured the symptom by killing the two '/usr/bin/VBoxClient --clipboard' processes and starting one instance manually. But that is of course just a hack. The trouble supposedly started after I updated my Xubuntu guest OS.
If you have further observations or even a way to reliably trigger the problem, I'd very much appreciate it.
BTW, if you set the 'verbose="yes"' attribute in the clipboard configuration in Sculpt's config fs, you can observe all copy operation that arrive at the global clipboard in the log.
I'm sorry that I don't have a cure for your problem right now. Let's keep an eye on this issue together.
Cheers Norman
Norman,
So I'm not yet able to pin-point the problem. Once I cured the symptom
by killing the two '/usr/bin/VBoxClient --clipboard' processes and starting one instance manually. But that is of course just a hack. The trouble supposedly started after I updated my Xubuntu guest OS.
typing VBoxClient --clipboard seemed to fix it, although it's not clear how because it didn't kill the old processes. But, that's a huge help, because at least I can copy/paste within the VM. Previous workaround was using the center-click in X in the VM, which does not seem to get copied to Sculpt (although center-click in Sculpt seems to paste the regular clipboard - probably Sculpt only has one clipboard unlike X).
If you have further observations or even a way to reliably trigger the problem, I'd very much appreciate it.
I'll check on this next time I reboot, but I've never "not had" this problem until now as far as I can remember, so probably my Debian install triggers it pretty reliably. I'll confirm that when I restart, because for now it's solved. Two quick observations - copying more than 814 lines of sequential 3-digit decimal (i.e. 4 bytes a line in UTF-8) gives "Error: could not write clipboard data." from vbox, but seems to work within the VM (now). It should be noted that within qt5_textedit the limit appears to be 1018 lines, and within the Sculpt "Files" editor itself much larger copies are possible (it's difficult to tell because that editor is not user-friendly when it comes to large files). The VM limit is ballpark for what I observed before in terms of in-VM copy failures, but I'll have to double-check when the issue resurfaces. Second observation, sometimes, for unknown reason, there will be a group of "Error: invalid clipboard xml syntax" messages from vbox. It seems to happen when the Sculpt editor is used.
BTW, if you set the 'verbose="yes"' attribute in the clipboard configuration in Sculpt's config fs, you can observe all copy operation that arrive at the global clipboard in the log.
Helpful, I have turned this on, thanks.
Update:
typing VBoxClient --clipboard seemed to fix it, although it's not clear how because it didn't kill the old processes. But, that's a huge help, because at least I can copy/paste within the VM. Previous workaround was using the center-click in X in the VM, which does not seem to get copied to Sculpt (although center-click in Sculpt seems to paste the regular clipboard - probably Sculpt only has one clipboard unlike X).
The problem recurred, even without reboot. It may be related to Atom text editor or LXDE, since I use both. It's now the limited clipboard is only an issue within the VM. Copying a moderate text (now the limit of large is onto the 103rd line which is ~412 codepoints) truncates within the VM, but in the Sculpt log the full copy occurs, and the full content can be pasted to Sculpt apps but not in the VM! Killing the VBoxClient did not resolve things. Very strange.
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Norman Feske