Copying to clipboard doesn't work about mosh-chrome

[rpwoodbu]

I think I've observed the same behavior. It isn't always the case, though. It may have started after I switched to using the latest "stable" release of hterm. It is almost certainly an hterm bug; I have written no code regarding copy/paste behavior. I wonder if you can repo using Secure Shell.

[AlexisEvo]

I've been using the Secure Shell app for about a year now, daily, for hours at a time and have never encountered the problem before. If the hterm is the issue, then I would imagine it's a newer version of hterm than the one used in Secure Shell on Chrome Webstore.

Even restarting the app doesn't fix it. Haven't tried rebooting the Chromebook.

Thanks for all the work writing this app though. I love Mosh and have wanted a NaCl version on my Chromebook for a while. Until now I've been using an Arch chroot inside CrOS to use mosh, which works okay, but native is always better.

[rpwoodbu]

That is indeed quite interesting. I'm observing this behavior right now in all my Mosh windows on Ubuntu LTS. The selection buffer works (which is of no use to Chrome OS users), but the text doesn't make it into the clipboard, in spite of the little scissors icon popping up (as you note). I just tried running Secure Shell, and it works just fine.

I still think it is an hterm bug, but I'll need to see which version they're using, and if I need to upgrade (or even downgrade).

[rpwoodbu]

I wonder if this might actually be a bug with Chrome. I can't repro on my machine at home, which is running Chrome Stable (I had to revert due to some Chrome X11 bug that affected only this machine), but my machine at work is running Chrome Beta, and it was broken there all week. I see you were running Beta. Try seeing if you can repro on Stable (although I don't recommend reverting your Chromebook to Stable, as that is a royal pain; try using regular Chrome on another platform).

[rpwoodbu]

I have tried this using Chrome Stable on a Mac, and it works fine. I've tried building with a newer hterm which does have some changes to the copying code, but alas, it still fails on Beta versions. This is looking more and more like a Chrome bug. It doesn't affect Secure Shell, though, which may be because it is not a packaged app like Mosh.

@sbc100 any thoughts?

[rpwoodbu]

I just noticed this: hterm is spitting this out onto the JS console whenever I try to copy on Chrome 34:

We don't execute document.execCommand() this time, because it is called recursively.

Some of the recent changes to hterm seem related to trying to fix that.

[rpwoodbu]

Fixed in SHA eeda945, simply by updating to hterm 1.34.

OK, I thought I was trying a newer release of hterm earlier today, but my build script led me astray (that's fixed in SHA 908df8c). So actually updating to a newer hterm fixed it.