clipboard & klipper in X11 terminal

[<tim...@en...>]

Interesting entry today on the blog of one of the klipper developpers :

http://www.kdedevelopers.org/blog/280
title =3D "why klipper is good"

Basically he describes how the clipboard works in X since the early ages
and how klipper manages to handle a history of clipboard contents.
He explains why there can be so much copies of a bitmap in klipper. The
problem may appear in gnuplot, but it is also a problem of openoffive
and mozilla.
Indeed gnuplot is quoted as a problematic app here :

http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D101087

The proposed solution is to set TIMESTAMP. I don't know much more
unfortunately. Details here :
http://tronche.com/gui/x/icccm/sec-2.html#s-2.6.2
And by the way he implemented a workaround for apps that don't set
TIMESTAMP which will be included in kde 3.5.2

Best regards,

Timoth=E9e Lecomte