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Re: xwinclip patch
- From: uribarri_u at tsm dot es
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2003 09:45:33 +0200
- Subject: Re: xwinclip patch
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Sensitivity:
> 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.
I've realized that I'm targeting a diffent user profile. I work with
Windows users
that want to use remote X11 apps, and you are thinking on X users that want
to work
from a windows box. The difference is subtle but important.
Therefore, I fear that a code fork will be the best choice.
Goodbye.
PD: Both emacs and xterm can be configured to work with the clipboard.