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| From | Charles Lindsey <chl@clerew.man.ac.uk> |
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| Newsgroups | comp.os.linux.misc, comp.os.linux.x |
| Subject | Re: What is the XA_SECONDARY clipboard? |
| Date | 2020-04-13 19:07 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <hfjo2gFa7t2U1@mid.individual.net> (permalink) |
| References | <o9n8a5$fd6$1@dont-email.me> <eli$1703081723@qz.little-neck.ny.us> <pOidnXhPLuW_WhbDnZ2dnUU78TXNnZ2d@brightview.co.uk> |
Cross-posted to 2 groups.
On 07/04/2020 01:19, Javier wrote: > In comp.os.linux.misc Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> 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? Well I missed the start of this thread, but I have been pointed at it. The essential difference between the Primary and Secondary selections, at least so far as text-like files are concerned, is that when you select a piece of text (with the intention of copying it, for example), it also moves the insertion point (I assume you are in some editor), so after copying it you have to go back and find again where the insertion point used to be, so you can paste it there. Which is a confounded nuisance. Twenty years ago, in the days when the Xview toolkit was in vogue, editors made use of the secondary selection as it was intended. It is still available in the Motif toolkit, and in the nedit editor, but they made it so difficult to use that everybody forgot about it. I was still using it on my Sun computer until four years ago (both in the editor and the terminal); it was the best thing since sliced bread. When I started using Ubuntu on 386 (yech!) architectures, I started modifying GTK to use it properly. My mistake then was to use a 32-bit version of Ubuntu when all the rest of the world was turning to 64-bit versions, so although I made my 32-bit version available, I don't think anybody used it. Now I have moved to 64-bit Ubuntu, I am still running my 32-bit version on it. So I refer you to http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~lindsec/secondary-selection.html where you will find a short video (it was my first attempt at creating such a video, so excuse its clunkiness) plus a full description of what it is all about. -- Charles H. Lindsey ---------At my New Home, still doing my own thing----------- Tel: +44 161 488 1845 Web: http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~chl Email: chl@clerew.man.ac.uk Snail: 40 SK8 5BF, U.K. PGP: 2C15F1A9 Fingerprint: 73 6D C2 51 93 A0 01 E7 65 E8 64 7E 14 A4 AB A5
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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
Re: What is the XA_SECONDARY clipboard? Javier <javier@invalid.invalid> - 2020-04-06 19:19 -0500
Re: What is the XA_SECONDARY clipboard? Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2020-04-07 02:10 +0000
Re: What is the XA_SECONDARY clipboard? Javier <javier@invalid.invalid> - 2020-04-07 07:49 -0500
Re: What is the XA_SECONDARY clipboard? Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2020-04-07 15:12 +0000
Re: What is the XA_SECONDARY clipboard? Javier <javier@invalid.invalid> - 2020-04-07 15:13 -0500
Re: What is the XA_SECONDARY clipboard? F Russell <fr@random.info> - 2020-04-07 02:48 +0000
Re: What is the XA_SECONDARY clipboard? T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2020-04-06 21:41 -0700
Re: What is the XA_SECONDARY clipboard? Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2020-04-13 00:49 +0000
Re: What is the XA_SECONDARY clipboard? Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2020-04-13 09:18 +0100
Re: What is the XA_SECONDARY clipboard? Charles Lindsey <chl@clerew.man.ac.uk> - 2020-04-13 19:07 +0100
Re: What is the XA_SECONDARY clipboard? Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2020-04-13 19:51 +0000
Re: What is the XA_SECONDARY clipboard? Charles Lindsey <chl@clerew.man.ac.uk> - 2020-04-14 21:00 +0100
Re: What is the XA_SECONDARY clipboard? Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2020-04-14 22:13 +0100
Re: What is the XA_SECONDARY clipboard? Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2020-04-15 08:16 -0400
Re: What is the XA_SECONDARY clipboard? Javier <javier@invalid.invalid> - 2020-04-06 19:27 -0500
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