[Xquartz-dev] Proposal for PRIMARY and CLIPBOARD Copy/Paste

[Mark J. Reed]

On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 2:26 PM, Jeremy Huddleston <jeremyhu at apple.com> wrote:
> Paste, however, is impossible to implement and will be removed from the
> menu.

Sure, obviously the X server can't force an application to do a paste.
 I just want what shows up when I use an application's Paste item to
be whatever I most recently Copied, whether from an X app or not - at
least for those apps that adhere to the conventions assumed by
X11.app.

X11.app can grab the selection, even if the owning app doesn't supply
a Copy option, so it makes sense to provide a Copy menu item at that
level.  But this statement confuses me:

> When the user does Edit->Copy in the Gimp/Nedit/OpenOffice menu, then that triggers CLIPBOARD to be sent to
> PASTEBOARD.

If that's the case, then presumably the data first had to get from
PRIMARY to CLIPBOARD.  How does that happen?

-- 
Mark J. Reed <markjreed at gmail.com>