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

[Jerry Haltom <wasabi larvalstage net>]

> Applications should consider themselves not allowed to crash no matter
> what.  Crashes should be exceptional circumstances, not daily
> occurances.  ;-)

We do however need to make the system as robust as possible. We cannot
have daily reboots being required like there are in Windows. A
possibility is that Metacity/Gnome-session/ProgramX can watch the
clipboard owner, and verify that he is still alive at some interval. If
he isn't, a friendly "This program is dead, kill?" message can be popped
up.

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Jerry Haltom <wasabi larvalstage net>

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