Re: Copy to clipboard for Linux

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Tuesday 18 July 2006 01:44 pm, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
> Well, give the patch I made a try.  

I am NOT going to look at this before 4.2
It would be insane to start fiddling with a major interface like
X11 just before a release.

> As far as I see it, there is now 
> a way to put things in the PRIMARY and CLIPBOARD.  If there is a
> version of X that doesn't use one of those mechanisms (which are
> called out in the X documentation) then that is its problem.

Please read the previous thread.  The issue is not what X11 wants.
The issue is that major user environments like KDE, and major apps
like OpenOffice, ignore this and do something else.  And then they
change it from version to version.

Any argument from the standard or the X11 docs is pointless.
This has to work on real machines for real users.

-- 
Ethan A Merritt
Biomolecular Structure Center
University of Washington, Seattle WA