Harold L Hunt II <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Owen,
>
> Owen Taylor wrote:
> > "Harold L Hunt II" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> >>...how would you do it, in 150 words or less?
> >>
> >>Seriously, I have been working on this for over a year and I would love to
> >>hear some of the ideas that people have because I am completely stumped on
> >>how to make such a clipboard manager work properly.
> > You really want a server extension (or you could do it in the
> > server, but that would prevent you from using existing client
> > code to retrieve the clipboard contents ... a non-trivial task.)
>
> Ah ha! Now there is a new idea that I had not thought of yet. This
> could be promising.
>
> Are you saying that I could write a server extension that only
> Cygwin/XFree86 uses and that such an extension would give me access to
> the internals that I need? Or, are you saying that there needs to be
> a new generic server extension that all clients need to support in
> order for us to play nicely with them?
There is no need for clients to use the extension, just the
clipboard manager program. The thread on xdg-list has the
details.
Regards,
Owen
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