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Re: XWin -clipboard and xwinclip bad highlighting behavior
- From: "Cary Jamison" <Cary dot Jamison at powerquest dot com>
- To: <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 13:22:49 -0600
- Subject: Re: XWin -clipboard and xwinclip bad highlighting behavior
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
"Harold L Hunt II" <huntharo at msu dot edu> wrote in message
news:<3E94889E dot 6020005 at msu dot edu>...
>
> I have now realized that the real way to integrate the X and Windows
> clipboards is with hooks in the general X server code that call
routines
> in the Windows-specific code and so forth. It is highly unlikely that
> the clipboard integration will require an X client application, and
this
> removes many of the short comings of the current clipboard
application.
> For example, the nightmares people have using xwinclip or -clipboard
> with XDMCP will go away with server-side code handling the
integration.
>
> I am not sure if the integration would be provided by an X Server
> extension or if we would have to have some #ifdef __CYGWIN__ sections
in
> the general X server code. In any case, I haven't got time to work on
> it and I am unlikely to for months, or even forever. Hopefully
someone
> else will find clipboard integration interesting to them.
Do you think Xdarwin has done anything along these lines that would be
of benefit? I got this idea from the message that was posted here a
couple days ago :
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2003-04/msg00060.html
They have probably fought some of the same issues and are trying to
genericize their code now.
Cary