On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 05:10:59PM -0500, Harold L Hunt II wrote: > > CUT_BUFFER is completely obsolete and totally broken. Most newer apps > > don't even use it. > > > > Right, that is what most people keep telling me. > > However, I am a pragmatic guy. If the current effect is that 99% or > even 75% of applications at least bump a CUT_BUFFER when the cut/copy > text to the clipboard, then I could at least use this as a signal that I > need to grab text from CLIPBOARD.
I'm pretty sure no GTK+ application touches it at all. I would be surprised if Qt applications do. Only the older stuff such as Emacs uses CUT_BUFFER. > The problem I have is that almost every commercial X Servers for MS > Windows in existence has solved the problem of clipboard integration > without causing X clients to unhighlight the current selection. Thus, I > know that the problem is solveable. Worse, my users know that the > problem is solveable and they keep asking me to solve it. It sounds a bit like you are mixing up PRIMARY and CLIPBOARD here. > Unfortunately, the ICCCM is about as vague as you can write a document > without inspiring people to put down what they are doing, buy a gun, > actively seek you out, and shoot you dead without bothering to drag you > out into the street. Case in point, the whole MANAGER... the discussion > of which leaves me completely clueless as to i) whether this would > actually help me or not and ii) how to use it: > > http://tronche.com/gui/x/icccm/sec-2.html#s-2.8 Manager selections are an unrelated concept to what you're doing here, I think. They just happen to use the selection feature, just as the clipboard does. Havoc _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
