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

[Jordan K. Hubbard]

On Sep 11, 2008, at 7:50 PM, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:

> Additionally, this particular issue can be solved by making pbproxy  
> greedy for CLIPBOARD.  And we have:
>
> On CLIPBOARD is stolen event:
> 	if option_proxy_clipboard:
> 		Copy data from CLIPBOARD owner to PB
> 		if not option_proxy_pb_to_clipboard: // because this is done by  
> the PB change event handler if we are
> 			Copy data from CLIPBOARD owner to pbproxy buffer
> 			Claim ownership of CLIPBOARD
>
> this is the more in-depth implementation of my original which  
> addresses George's concern:

OK, that seems like a reasonable approach to me too, and without any  
weird PRIMARY selection side-effects.  If George is convinced, we  
should go for it!

- Jordan