[Xquartz-dev] Making it less ambiguous - Copy/Paste Problem

[George Peter Staplin]

Quoted George Peter Staplin <georgeps at xmission.com>:
>
> What are your thoughts on the following?
>
>   1. get CLIPBOARD data when with have an XQuartz Edit->Copy.

That should read: get CLIPBOARD data when there is an owner of it,  
after an XQuartz Edit->Copy...

>   2. set pbproxy as owner of CLIPBOARD.  set pbproxy as owner of
> PRIMARY.   copy the contents to NSPasteboard.
>   3. respond to requests from X11 for pastes of PRIMARY and possibly  
>  CLIPBOARD
>   4. if Edit->Copy occurs in XQuartz and pbproxy owns CLIPBOARD, then
> ignore clipboard, and only copy PRIMARY to NSPasteboard.
>
> I think that works.  It's complex stuff though, so if you see a
> problem with that approach please let me know.


George
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