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Re: XWin -clipboard and xwinclip bad highlighting behavior
- From: gilles civario <civario at mimosa dot ceng dot cea dot fr>
- To: cygwin-xfree <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2003 07:55:09 +0200
- Subject: Re: XWin -clipboard and xwinclip bad highlighting behavior
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
Cary Jamison wrote:
> I find that the times I actually need to cut/paste between Windows and X
> to be very few. I'm mostly doing it within windows or within X but not
> between them. Because of this I only start xwinclip when I need it. I
> have a shortcut on my desktop so I can quickly start it when I want and
> then close it when I'm done. That way I don't get bothered by the weird
> selection problems in X.
My usage of the clipboard it exactly the same as yours. That's why I
think that the standalone xwinclip package should evolve as the
integrated one does. I however recognise that I don't feel I can do
it myself... Nevertheless, here is tow cool stuff that xwinclip could
have:
- To be launched with the command line argument in XWin, but to be
activated only when needed, may be with a particular keyboard
shortcut, or a special right-click on the windows tool bar XWin
icon
- When the clipboard is activated, to be able to force the copy/past
to/from the clipboard with keyboards shortcuts (particularly useful
for copying X-selection to windows clipboard when the selection is
made in a terminal. I'm usually have to open a text editor to past
the selection on it, and to reselect it, to force it to be store on
the windows clipboard)
Does anybody think it could be possible?
Gilles.