X11 Selections

[Kensuke Matsuzaki]

Harold,

I think you were working on XFIXES extention to solve #1.
Is that another solution?

> 1) Stop stealing the selection ownership as a means to tell when the 
> clipboard has changed within X.
> 
> 2) Don't require an X Client connection and try to remove the dependency 
> on Xlib.
> 
> The new code solves problem #1, but it does nothing for #2, since we 
> still need an X Client connection to receive the contents of the 
> selection and we still need Xlib to convert the selection into the 
> desired format.  I am not sure how long it will take us to remove these 
> two dependencies, so I am going to release the solution to problem #1 in 
> the mean time.  I am not sure that we will ever deem it worth the time 
> and effort to solve problem #2.

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