Subj : Clipboard/Primary Select
To   : All
From : Deuce
Date : Sun Jan 23 2005 10:22 pm

Soo... after years of having a vauge idea that CLIPBOARD was where your data
should sit if you explicity copy it and PRIMARY is where it should go when you
select it (Essentially, an explicit copy copies PRIMARY to CLIPBOARD)  I
implemented copy/paste in an app that uses Xlib rather than a higher-level
toolkit (Specifically, SyncTERM)

Well, it turns out that CLIPBOARD is *not* part of the X11 protocol at all...
the definition for it is in with the Xmu stuff... which means you need a whole
'nuther library to support CLIPBOARD!

As a result, SyncTERM and all the UIFC apps (SCFG, ECHOCFG, UEDIT, UMONITOR,
SBBSINST, etc) will only support copy/paste using the PRIMARY selection.

So, for the record, X does NOT support Win32-style copy/paste... you need an
add-on lib to work with that.  Time to stop believeing what people tell you I
guess.

*mutter*

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