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- From: gt@rundart.demon.co.uk (Giles Todd)
- Path: sparky!uunet!pipex!demon!rundart.demon.co.uk!gt
- Subject: Re: DVX + MOTIF - mark and transfer
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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 18:52:59 +0000
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- In article <lfw.725066414@pssparc2.mitek.com> lfw@pssparc2.mitek.com writes:
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- >XClipboard is actually a protocol that defines an interaction between
- >two ordinary (non-window manager) X Clients. If two application level
- >X clients know how to manipulate this facility, then they can
- >cut/copy/paste betwixt themselves via this "selection" mechanism.
- >To my knowledge, the window manager does little to help or hamper this
- >interaction. Apparently the DWM itself has defined yet another
- >selection mechanism that DV/X aware clients can exploit.
- >
- >In products that I have helped implement, we have
- >configurability in the specification of which selection mechanism to
- >use for text transfer ("primary selection buffer" or "X clipboard").
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- Ah - thanks for the information. I think I need some X manuals.
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- Giles.
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