"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