On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 08:00:50PM -0400, Kris Maglione wrote: > > As if that weren't bad enough, X11 *also* has central buffers, "cut > buffers", which are deprecated, but still used by some apps. And there > are 3 selections, PRIMARY, SECONDARY, and CLIPBOARD. Some apps, > expecially browsers and Gnome/KDEish apps, tend to use the PRIMARY and > CLIPBOARD selections, depending on what you're doing (middle click > pastes the PRIMARY, ^V pastes the CLIPBOARD). It's a terrific mess.
There is an attempt underway to get some sanity in use... http://standards.freedesktop.org/clipboards-spec/clipboards-0.1.txt As to cut buffers, there is no agreed data type in them, so one cannot know if they are ascii, latin1, utf-8, or something else. DF
