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xwinclip shouldn't monitor the primary selection
- From: uribarri_u at tsm dot es
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2003 20:09:20 +0200
- Subject: xwinclip shouldn't monitor the primary selection
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Sensitivity:
I think that xwinclip shouldn't monitor the primary selection because:
a) The primary selection has user feedback. When an X application loses the
primary selection, usually clears the selection, so you can't delete, cut,
copy or whatever you want to do.
b) The primary selection doesn't behave like the windows clipboard, so
windows users get confused.
On the other hand, the clipboard selection doesn't usually have user
feedback and behaves like the windows clipboard: you must request the cut
or copy operation explicitly.
What do you think?
Thanks