Only announce clipboard for plain text data #1840
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FLTK has support for both image and plain text clipboard data, we don't. This means we only send plain text clipboard from the viewer to the server. Some applications can get confused when we announce that clipboard is available and later don't send anything. An example of such an application is QGIS, in the remote session it froze when an image was copied on the client side.
Steps to reproduce:
Xvnc logs the following:
While vncviewer logs:
The problem for the QGIS application seems to occur when it has been notified by the VNC server that clipboard is available, and then doesn't get anything after asking for it.
This fix means we only call announceClipboard() when the clipboard contains plain text. That means TigerVNC is now more robust and doesn't trigger freezes in buggy applications.