Thorsten, Thanks for your response--sorry I haven't responded any sooner.
On Thursday 03 January 2008 08:12 am, Thorsten Haude wrote: > * Randy Kramer wrote (2007-11-30 11:56): > >A remaining somewhat odd thing about X selections is that exiting the app you > >did a cut/copy from removes the cut/copied data from the clipboard, since the > >selection protocol is asynchronous and requires the source app to provide the > >data at paste time. The solution here would be a standardized protocol for a > >"clipboard daemon" so that apps could hand off their data to a daemon when > >they exit. Or alternatively, you can run an application such as xclipboard > >which constantly "harvests" clipboard selections. For the record, the above quote attributed to me is actually from the website that I attributed in the original email: http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/ClipboardsWiki Now that I look at this again, and see the part about xclipboard continually (constantly) harvesting clipboard selections, I wonder if klipper does the same (it seems like it would have to) and if some of the hanging I experience is because of that. Like you suggest in the next reply, I should try xclipboard and see if I have the same problems. It may be a while before I do that--real life is intruding. Randy Kramer > This would not be a "solution", as it would almost certainly remove > functionality. Call it an alternative, if you want. > > Using classical X11 methods, two apps can discuss the format in which > the information should be transmitted. For example, if I would select > a picture in Firefox and would paste it into Gimp, I would get a JPEG > (or PNG or whatever); in NEdit, only the alt tag would be pasted. > > If I would select a piece of text in Firefox and would paste it into > NEdit, NEdit might even pop up a dialog asking the user whether he > wants to paste the text or the matching segment of HTML source. > > > The work behind this is done by the applications. A clipboard dæmon > would have to know every format possible, and keep them all in memory. > > > See http://tronche.com/gui/x/icccm/sec-2.html#s-2.6.2 > > > Thorsten > -- > Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. > It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. > - William Pitt > -- NEdit Develop mailing list - [email protected] http://www.nedit.org/mailman/listinfo/develop
