Clipboard configuration

Harold L Hunt II huntharo@msu.edu
Thu Jan 8 15:00:00 GMT 2004


Øyvind,

Øyvind Harboe wrote:

> A good configuration option is no configuration option :-)
> 
> Is there any reason not to make -clipboard default for XWin once the 
> current round of changes are out of the door?
> 
> In the past xwinclip crashed intermittantly and it clobbered the clipboard, so -clipboard 
> not being default made sense.

I have already been thinking about it.

I'll eventually make -clipboard the default and add a -noclipboard 
option to disable it.

That is what we have typically done for all features that newly reach 
stabililty.

Harold



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