Cut/Copy/Paste Menu Selections

[Damian Ivereigh <damian cisco com>]

Hi all,

I am struggling with the cut'n'paste system in gnome (or X). I have read
the various docs at freedesktop.org and have figured all the actual
cut/paste stuff for the application.

However I would like to also change the "sensitivity" of the menu items
according to various situations. The most obvious example is only making
"paste" sensitive when there is actually something in the clipboard.

I have searched around for some way to easily detect if there is
something in the clipboard. However I have found no function or easy way
to do this. Does anyone have any suggestions? Should I just give up?

Damian