XWin -clipboard and xwinclip bad highlighting behavior

[Harold L Hunt II]

Derek,

Yes, we know.

This is not an easy problem, search the mailing list archives for more 
details.

No one is working on this problem at the moment and we appreciate your 
offer to help.  You might be interested in the XFIXES extension, which 
almost made it into the XFree86 4.3.0 release but was pulled.  It 
included a mechanism to notify clients when the clipboard contents 
changed.  We can either use this extension to get notification, or we 
can insert our own hooks into the portion of the X Server that handles 
the clipboard.  Either way, I am beginning to think that providing 
clipboard integration via an X Client is not the correct way to address 
this problem.

Ask any questions on the list, I will be glad to assist where I can.

Harold

Derek Bennett wrote:
> I have observed that highlighting with either xwipclip running or Xwin
> running with the -clipboard switch, vanishes directly after completing a
> selection. The copy to the X and Windows clipboards happens just fine.
> However, I would prefer the highlighting to remain until the next mouse
> click as it does on other X servers. I read in an earlier thread that
> the vanishing highlighting is expected and normal behavior. I would like
> to have that behavior changed so that it is at least configurable. I
> wouldn't mind doing it myself. If this "problem" is already being
> addressed, please tell me so. Otherwise, please tell me how to get
> started addressing it; I don't mind doing the work myself.