Re: clipboard & klipper in X11 terminal

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

Another detail from http://tronche.com/gui/x/icccm/sec-2.html
(official convention document for interprocess communication between X
applications)

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2.1. Acquiring Selection Ownership
A client wishing to acquire ownership of a particular selection should
call SetSelectionOwner, which is defined as follows:

SetSelectionOwner selection :     ATOM
owner :     WINDOW or None
time :     TIMESTAMP or CurrentTime

The client should set the specified selection to the atom that
represents the selection, set the specified owner to some window that
the client created, and set the specified time to some time between the
current last-change time of the selection concerned and the current
server time. This time value usually will be obtained from the timestamp
of the event that triggers the acquisition of the selection. Clients
should not set the time value to CurrentTime , because if they do so,
they have no way of finding when they gained ownership of the selection.
Clients must use a window they created so that requestors can route
events to the owner of the selection.2

Convention

    Clients attempting to acquire a selection must set the time value of
the SetSelectionOwner request to the timestamp of the event triggering
the acquisition attempt, not to CurrentTime . A zero-length append to a
property is a way to obtain a timestamp for this purpose; the timestamp
is in the corresponding PropertyNotify event.

If the time in the SetSelectionOwner request is in the future relative
to the server's current time or is in the past relative to the last time
the specified selection changed hands, the SetSelectionOwner request
appears to the client to succeed, but ownership is not actually
transferred.
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Guess what ? We are using CurrentTime in the x11 terminal...

Timoth=E9e