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Re: What is the XA_SECONDARY clipboard?

From F Russell <fr@random.info>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc, comp.os.linux.x
Subject Re: What is the XA_SECONDARY clipboard?
Date 2020-04-07 02:48 +0000
Organization NewsGuy.com
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On Mon, 06 Apr 2020 19:19:46 -0500, Javier wrote:

> 
> Other than that it is used by very few applications.  Having primary and
> clipboard is already confusing enough for everybody.
> 

It's even more confusing in that these selections, primary, secondary, and
clipboard, are merely the standard, built-in selections.  An application
can define any number of selection types for data transfer.  These user-defined
selections can only be exploited if another application knows about them.
The standard, built-in selections, however, are understood by most other
applications.

The X Window selections are fundamentally different from the "clipboard"
that is found in MS Windows, but most people tend to view these two different
systems as being identical.

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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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