selection: do not use a useless module
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1 /*
2 * selection.c - Selection handling
4 * Copyright © 2009 Julien Danjou <julien@danjou.info>
5 * Copyright © 2009 Gregor Best <farhaven@googlemail.com>
7 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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12 * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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14 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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19 * 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
23 #include <xcb/xcb_atom.h>
25 #include "selection.h"
26 #include "structs.h"
27 #include "event.h"
28 #include "common/atoms.h"
30 extern awesome_t globalconf;
32 static xcb_window_t selection_window = XCB_NONE;
34 /** Get the current X selection buffer.
35 * \param L The Lua VM state.
36 * \return The number of elements pushed on stack.
37 * \luastack
38 * \lreturn A string with the current X selection buffer.
40 int
41 luaA_selection_get(lua_State *L)
43 if(selection_window == XCB_NONE)
45 xcb_screen_t *screen = xutil_screen_get(globalconf.connection, globalconf.default_screen);
46 uint32_t mask = XCB_CW_BACK_PIXEL | XCB_CW_OVERRIDE_REDIRECT | XCB_CW_EVENT_MASK;
47 uint32_t values[] = { screen->black_pixel, 1, XCB_EVENT_MASK_PROPERTY_CHANGE };
49 selection_window = xcb_generate_id(globalconf.connection);
51 xcb_create_window(globalconf.connection, screen->root_depth, selection_window, screen->root,
52 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, XCB_COPY_FROM_PARENT, screen->root_visual,
53 mask, values);
56 xcb_convert_selection(globalconf.connection, selection_window,
57 PRIMARY, UTF8_STRING, XSEL_DATA, XCB_CURRENT_TIME);
58 xcb_flush(globalconf.connection);
60 xcb_generic_event_t *event;
62 while(true)
64 event = xcb_wait_for_event(globalconf.connection);
66 if(!event)
67 return 0;
69 if(XCB_EVENT_RESPONSE_TYPE(event) != XCB_SELECTION_NOTIFY)
71 /* \todo Eventually, this may be rewritten with adding a static
72 * buffer, then a event handler for XCB_SELECTION_NOTIFY, then call
73 * xcb_event_poll_for_event_loop() and awesome_refresh(),
74 * then check if some static buffer has been filled with data.
75 * If yes, that'd be the xsel data, otherwise, re-loop.
76 * Anyway that's still brokes the socket or D-Bus, so maybe using
77 * ev_loop() would be even better.
79 xcb_event_handle(&globalconf.evenths, event);
80 p_delete(&event);
81 awesome_refresh(globalconf.connection);
82 continue;
85 xcb_selection_notify_event_t *event_notify =
86 (xcb_selection_notify_event_t *) event;
88 if(event_notify->selection == PRIMARY
89 && event_notify->property != XCB_NONE)
91 xcb_get_text_property_reply_t prop;
92 xcb_get_property_cookie_t cookie =
93 xcb_get_text_property(globalconf.connection,
94 event_notify->requestor,
95 event_notify->property);
97 if(xcb_get_text_property_reply(globalconf.connection,
98 cookie, &prop, NULL))
100 lua_pushlstring(L, prop.name, prop.name_len);
102 xcb_get_text_property_reply_wipe(&prop);
104 xcb_delete_property(globalconf.connection,
105 event_notify->requestor,
106 event_notify->property);
108 p_delete(&event);
110 return 1;
112 else
113 break;
117 p_delete(&event);
118 return 0;