Re: What is the XA_SECONDARY clipboard?

From	Charles Lindsey <chl@clerew.man.ac.uk>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.misc, comp.os.linux.x
Subject	Re: What is the XA_SECONDARY clipboard?
Date	2017-03-22 16:23 +0000
Message-ID	<ejfmn7Fll9kU1@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
References	<o9n8a5$fd6$1@dont-email.me> <eli$1703081723@qz.little-neck.ny.us>

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On Wed, 08 Mar 2017 22:36:41 +0000, Eli the Bearded wrote:

> In comp.os.linux.misc, T  <T@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> 
> I added a crosspost to comp.os.linux.x. I had also been hoping someone
> would answer before me, but...
> 
>>  From "man xclip" I see that I have three clipboards:
> ...
>>     "secondary" or XA_SECONDARY
>> 
>> I am very familiar with the first two.  What is XA_SECONDARY?
>> And how do I use it?

see http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~chl/secondary-selection.html



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What is the XA_SECONDARY clipboard? T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2017-03-07 13:25 -0800
  Re: What is the XA_SECONDARY clipboard? Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2017-03-08 22:36 +0000
    Re: What is the XA_SECONDARY clipboard? T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2017-03-16 09:31 -0700
    Re: What is the XA_SECONDARY clipboard? Charles Lindsey <chl@clerew.man.ac.uk> - 2017-03-22 16:23 +0000
      Re: What is the XA_SECONDARY clipboard? Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2017-03-22 20:07 +0000

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