kfish / xsel

A command-line program for getting and setting the contents of the X selection

Home Page:http://www.kfish.org/software/xsel/

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timeout does not work as expected

oz123 opened this issue · comments

Hi,

I tried earasing the clipboard with -t 3000. If I understand the English correctly in the man page, this means that after 3 seconds the clip board selection will expire?
Any I tried this:

[60] oz123@yenitiny:~/software/xsel-1.2.0 $ echo "test" | ./xsel -p -i   --selectionTimeout 3 && sleep 3 && xsel
test
[61] oz123@yenitiny:~/software/xsel-1.2.0 $ 

As you can see, the selection is still there after the timeout ...

I would appreciate it if you can comment about it.
Also I read the C code, and I saw this:

     2082   timeout = timeout_ms * 1000;

The value read from command line is multplied by 1000, so I think the manual page should be updated ... The timeout value read is in Seconds.

This was fixed by #5