Re: State of the X clipboard, and perhaps a solution

[Jerry Haltom <wasabi larvalstage net>]

> When Mike Hearn described the Windows clipboard as working pretty much
> the same way, I proposed we do the same for X:
> 
>   http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2003-October/msg00637.html
> 
> Session saving, a shutdown-hand-off method, et al. are discussed in thread.
> Interest was minimal, but far worse is that KDE has a different notion of
> how the clipboard should work at the user interaction level:
> 
>   http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2003-December/msg00009.html
>   et seq.

Those are both interesting, but neither solves the problem as it should
be solved. Ie, zero interruption to user and it needs to Just Work as a
user would expect. That and they're very hackish.

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Jerry Haltom <wasabi larvalstage net>

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