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Re: xclipboard question

At 7:52 PM -0400 6/28/03, robert delius royar wrote: 
The new X11.app (v 1) without quartz-wm does not seem to know about non-X
cut buffers. Non-X programs do not know about X11 selections and
cut-buffers.  Would it be possible to add code to xclipboard that would
place the current non-X cut buffer (selected copied text) into one of its
buffers for transfer to X11 programs and place selected X11 text in the
system clipboard for non-X programs to use?

Or perhaps there is already some software that can do this?  I assume that
quartz-wm was responsible for handling this transfer in X11.app b1-b3.
Perhaps if it could be added to xclipboard, it could just as simply be added
to a window manager?  On the other hand, if it were that simple, it would
already be there.

The plan for XFree86 is to incorporate this functionality into a deamon. In XFree86 4.3.0, cut and paste support is provided by the X server, while X11.app has no internal cut and paste support. However, doing it in another process, like quartz-wm, does allow you to provide a better experience as those who have used XDarwin and quartz-wm can attest. quartz-wm "does the right thing" more often.

--Torrey
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