Re: Copy to clipboard for Linux

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

Ethan Merritt wrote:
> 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.

I'm thinking along the lines that 4.2 is pretty much set accept for any bugs someone asks me to fix.  (Just about got a bug fix ready here.)

As for someone who could look at this, I mean the people with interest and who asked about the clipboard initially.


>>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.

Do you mean OpenOffice in KDE?  Because the patch provides both PRIMARY and CLIPBOARD for OpenOffice in Gnome and it works as expected.


> 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.

I don't think it is pointless.  If KDE or some other environment reacts to just PRIMARY or just CLIPBOARD, then they still have a form of getting the Pixmap.

Dan