[Xquartz-dev] pbproxy-13 (a pasteboard proxy for XQuartz)

[Jeremy Huddleston]

On Oct 17, 2008, at 08:51, xquartz-dev.5.mzs at spamgourmet.com wrote:
> It would be really nice if pbproxy detected the un-presence of the  
> AppleWM
> extentsion and still ran in the background.

If the AppleWM extension is not present, then we don't have a way of  
knowing when we gain focus or when you do a copy.  This might be  
possible once we change the implementation to work with things like:

pbcopy < some_file
[[middle click]]

> I am guessing it is only doing
> that for syncing-up with the preferences and handling the edit -> copy
> menu and keyboard shortcut.

as well as knowing when we leave or enter X11.app, so we can proxy to/ 
from Pasteboard.

> You would not need to worry about the first
> case and the second could be handled with a SIGUSR1 handler. Then  
> people
> that don't use X11.app could have this great tool. I would simply  
> put a
> killall -USR1 pbproxy in my .twmrc for example.

You should be able to SIGHUP it to reload prefs (that's how quartz-wm  
was, and I think that code survived to pbproxy, but I'm not 100%  
certain of that... if not, I'll put that in later).

--Jeremy
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