Re: Copy to clipboard for Linux

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

Ethan Merritt wrote:

>  That way, after you close your
>>program, stuff will still be available in a clipboard somewhere.
> 
> 
> Well, that's one use.  It has a lot of other uses, too.
> I use it all the time.

Sure, but Gnuplot's world stops at the XA_PRIMARY selection currently.


>>That has nothing to do with Gnuplot.
> 
> 
> It has everything to do with gnuplot.  
> It was precisely the change in klipper design that broke gnuplot
> use under KDE 3.4 and required the previous round of changes by
> Timothee.

I will search the archive and look for what the change was.

> The point is that gnuplot has to run under the common desktop
> environments that people actually use.  If those environments
> arguably do not follow the X11 standard - too bad, we still have
> to accommodate them.

According to the present code, if everyone is accomodated then XA_PRIMARY is the solution.  But how is it that supporting both XA_PRIMARY and XA_CLIPBOARD with a possible term option to map things so that both are one way or another doesn't accomodate all environments?  What I'm suggesting doesn't take away the XA_PRIMARY route.

Dan