Re: Copy to clipboard for Linux

[Dave D. <dde...@es...>]

Ethan Merritt <merritt@u.washington.edu> writes:

>
> 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.
>

If there are multiple incompatible protocols being used, then it may
be better (well, more efficient) to write one standalone utility which
can convert between the protocols, rather than insisting that every app
can speak all the different protocols.

Anyway, that's what Citrix was trying to do with the xcapture thing I
mentioned the other day. The only interesting app at the time was xv,
which had it's own proprietry way of doing cut/paste, so the external
helper could translate between that and gnuplot/ica-client


dd
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