Re: Copy to clipboard for Linux

[Daniel J S. <dan...@ie...>]

Timoth=E9e Lecomte wrote:
> Dave Denholm wrote:
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>> Ah - tell you what - there is one thing that is timing dependent.
>>
>> When you acquire a selection, you're supposed to give a
>> timestamp. That is a server time, and it usually comes from the X
>> event that triggered the action to acquire the selection. But gnuplot
>> doesn't have such an event. IIRC, we use "currenttime" for that, but
>> that isn't a real time.
>>  =20
>=20
> Hmm. I wrote the code just a few months ago to provide this timestamp. =
I=20
> took the time as plot->time. I realise now that this time is only=20
> updated at a button release event, and put to 0 at each "record", so if=
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> the user doesn't click on the window this timestamp may have a useless=20
> value.

Could have been a problem.  But I eventually whittled things down to the =
one problem Dave is keen to.  I did notice that the client used to call a=
 XA_TIMESTAMP selector request.  But now it no longer does.  Perhaps that=
 was an issue (that X could resolve with the XA_TIMESTAMP property reques=
t), and now has gone away.

Dan