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Re: xwinclip patch
- From: "Earle F. Philhower, III" <earle at ziplabel dot com>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2003 18:02:42 -0000
- Subject: Re: xwinclip patch
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
Howdy Harold, you took the words right out of my mouth (well, maybe they
were a bit kinder than I'd have been!):
>Subject: Re: xwinclip patch
>...
>Not all applications used the CLIPBOARD atom... a lot of them still only
>use XA_PRIMARY. Dropping support for XA_PRIMARY is a HUGE reduction in
>the feature set of xwinclip and it will not be accepted by users.
XA_PRIMARY is what's used by the two largest apps used under X (according
to the Unix Hater's Guide): emacs and xterm. I think you'd have a line of
people knocking on your door to yell at you if you were even to think about
removing the select => paste flow from these apps, or the even worse option
of having to select then move the mouse to the taskbar and select some option
from a popup menu to paste things.
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-Earle F. Philhower, III
earle@ziplabel.com
http://www.ziplabel.com