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

[Alan Cox <alan lxorguk ukuu org uk>]

On Sad, 2004-04-24 at 15:59, Soeren Sandmann wrote:
>         - User selects data
>         - User picks edit->copy
>         - User kills process
>         - User expects paste into another window to work
> 
> It does break, and the user does lose data if he did the edit->copy to
> evacuate his data out of a hosed application.

Robust does not mean perfect. The kind of things I mean are that its not
acceptable if the paste hangs the other application waiting for
acknowledgement.