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

[Jerry Haltom <jhaltom feedbackplusinc com>]

> They in the real world are going to have to deal with apps that hang due
> to network failures, NFS going on holiday and all the other realities.
> Clipboards have to be robust to some degree.,

Agreed. This would have to be implemented safely. For example... when a
program enters "sleeping waiting for clipboard" state, it should have
closed all open files, and essentially for all intensive purposes shut
down completely. The only remaining data that should be active in the
program is the copied data and the code to transform it.

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Jerry Haltom
Feedback Plus, Inc.