On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote: > ...how would you do it, in 150 words or less? > > Seriously, I have been working on this for over a year and I would love to > hear some of the ideas that people have because I am completely stumped on > how to make such a clipboard manager work properly.
I'd be completely lost describing it in 150 words just for X. IIRC there are at least 3 clipboard/cut-buffer mechansims (no I can't remember them all). xprop -root lists 8 CUT_BUFFERX strings (and an atom called _MOTIF_CLIP_FORMAT_ACROBAT_SELECTION) There are about 5 (OK maybe only 3) ways of indicating a clipboard string in a non ascii/latin1 encoding, some of which can't be used by clients in different locales. Throw in MS Windows, and I'd be unhappy unless you can preserve the ability of X to mark in one window and paste in another, using only the mouse. I doubt I'd consider a windowing system without it, at least one based on keyboard+mouse, or even a stylus. -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
