2 * selection.c - Selection handling
4 * Copyright © 2009 Julien Danjou <julien@danjou.info>
5 * Copyright © 2009 Gregor Best <farhaven@googlemail.com>
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23 #include <xcb/xcb_atom.h>
25 #include "selection.h"
27 #include "common/atoms.h"
28 #include "common/xutil.h"
30 static xcb_window_t selection_window
= XCB_NONE
;
32 /** Get the current X selection buffer.
33 * \param L The Lua VM state.
34 * \return The number of elements pushed on stack.
36 * \lreturn A string with the current X selection buffer.
39 luaA_selection_get(lua_State
*L
)
41 if(selection_window
== XCB_NONE
)
43 xcb_screen_t
*screen
= globalconf
.screen
;
44 uint32_t mask
= XCB_CW_BACK_PIXEL
| XCB_CW_OVERRIDE_REDIRECT
| XCB_CW_EVENT_MASK
;
45 uint32_t values
[] = { screen
->black_pixel
, 1, XCB_EVENT_MASK_PROPERTY_CHANGE
};
47 selection_window
= xcb_generate_id(globalconf
.connection
);
49 xcb_create_window(globalconf
.connection
, screen
->root_depth
, selection_window
, screen
->root
,
50 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, XCB_COPY_FROM_PARENT
, screen
->root_visual
,
54 xcb_convert_selection(globalconf
.connection
, selection_window
,
55 XCB_ATOM_PRIMARY
, UTF8_STRING
, XSEL_DATA
, globalconf
.timestamp
);
56 xcb_flush(globalconf
.connection
);
58 xcb_generic_event_t
*event
;
62 event
= xcb_wait_for_event(globalconf
.connection
);
67 if(XCB_EVENT_RESPONSE_TYPE(event
) != XCB_SELECTION_NOTIFY
)
69 /* \todo Eventually, this may be rewritten with adding a static
70 * buffer, then a event handler for XCB_SELECTION_NOTIFY, then call
71 * xcb_event_poll_for_event_loop() and awesome_refresh(),
72 * then check if some static buffer has been filled with data.
73 * If yes, that'd be the xsel data, otherwise, re-loop.
74 * Anyway that's still brakes the socket or D-Bus, so maybe using
75 * ev_loop() would be even better.
83 xcb_selection_notify_event_t
*event_notify
=
84 (xcb_selection_notify_event_t
*) event
;
86 if(event_notify
->selection
== XCB_ATOM_PRIMARY
87 && event_notify
->property
!= XCB_NONE
)
89 xcb_icccm_get_text_property_reply_t prop
;
90 xcb_get_property_cookie_t cookie
=
91 xcb_icccm_get_text_property(globalconf
.connection
,
92 event_notify
->requestor
,
93 event_notify
->property
);
95 if(xcb_icccm_get_text_property_reply(globalconf
.connection
,
98 lua_pushlstring(L
, prop
.name
, prop
.name_len
);
100 xcb_icccm_get_text_property_reply_wipe(&prop
);
102 xcb_delete_property(globalconf
.connection
,
103 event_notify
->requestor
,
104 event_notify
->property
);
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