On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 03:11:08PM -0500, G O Economou wrote:
> > In fact, I have made 8 releases :)  I originally copied text from
> > CUT_BUFFER0, which worked fine for me.  As soon as I released this
> > people started complaining about what it did not do (namely, it didn't
> > handle non-U.S. text).

CUT_BUFFER is completely obsolete and totally broken. Most newer apps
don't even use it.

Here is some background information:
  http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/clipboards.txt

Of course you should also read the ICCCM before you do anything here.

See also this thread:
  https://listman.redhat.com/pipermail/xdg-list/2002-November/000881.html

And Keith's X extension to monitor selection changes, though this
won't be in 4.3.

Havoc
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