Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Charles Lindsey Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.x Subject: Re: What is the XA_SECONDARY clipboard? Date: 22 Mar 2017 16:23:03 GMT Lines: 23 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net xoqaS8k3AQXCwNuE5XienQeeWFDRzCDU0GeWTpQUQ1gLVo1fY= Cancel-Lock: sha1:1uzoLa1ryflI4mHMSr5dA3WIt4Y= User-Agent: Pan/0.139 (Sexual Chocolate; GIT bf56508 git://git.gnome.org/pan2) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:19571 comp.os.linux.x:280 On Wed, 08 Mar 2017 22:36:41 +0000, Eli the Bearded wrote: > In comp.os.linux.misc, T 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 -- Charles H. Lindsey ---------At Home, doing my own thing ------------------ Tel: +44 161 436 6131 Web: http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~chl Email: chl@clerew.man.ac.uk Snail: 5 SK8 3JU, U.K. PGP: 2C15F1A9 Fingerprint: 73 6D C2 51 93 A0 01 E7 65 E8 64 7E 14 A4 AB A5