From c93d9bc85d7bc76c7ece39f3b7fb33cfab807c2d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Havoc Pennington Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 01:39:40 +0000 Subject: updates --- clipboard/clipboards.txt | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'clipboard/clipboards.txt') diff --git a/clipboard/clipboards.txt b/clipboard/clipboards.txt index 91c9d06..682467e 100644 --- a/clipboard/clipboards.txt +++ b/clipboard/clipboards.txt @@ -106,4 +106,11 @@ app you did a cut/copy from removes the cut/copied data from the clipboard, since the selection protocol is asynchronous and requires the source app to provide the data at paste time. The solution here would be a standardized protocol for a "clipboard daemon" so that apps -could hand off their data to a daemon when they exit. +could hand off their data to a daemon when they exit. Or +alternatively, you can run an application such as xclipboard which +constantly "harvests" clipboard selections. + +References: + - the ICCCM, obviously + - http://www.xfree86.org/~keithp/talks/selection.ps + - http://www.jwz.org/doc/x-cut-and-paste.html -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2