Heiko Baums wrote: > >> > On Wednesday, April 13, 2011 20:45:32 Grigorios Bouzakis wrote: >> >> This feature request: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/23747 >> >> >> >> Greg > > From what I read about it now, definitely not! > > I regularly use both standard X buffers and I need both. I need the > Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V method as well as just pasting the selection with the > middle mouse click. Btw., usually the clipboards of most DEs - at least > the ones of KDE and Xfce - already let the user decide and configure > how both buffers are handled, if they are synchronized or if they are > separated. > > So I don't think there's a need for such a tool like autocutsel and it > definitely doesn't have to become a default, means a dependency. Users > who want autocutsel can, of course, install it. But there shouldn't be > any system wide config which forces the users to use it the way the > admin wants them to use it. Its a bit long, so apologies beforehand. I will post about this here and not the bug tracker, hoping more people will read it. If you are interested in learning about the X clipboard consult this document: http://standards.freedesktop.org/clipboards-spec/clipboards-latest.txt its the latest standard i know of. Additionally, some Debian developer actually wrote man pages for this "very poorly documented" but very useful application: autocutsel(1): http://goo.gl/oLjME cutsel(1): http://goo.gl/al1WN Heres a step by step demonstration: Testcase A: Using 'autocutsel -fork &' in my .xinitrc i copy "test1" using the mouse selection and https://bbs.archlinux.org/ using a right click+copy on firefox from the Arch homepage. Heres what cutsel reports: $ cutsel -s CLIPBOARD cut https://bbs.archlinux.org/ $ cutsel -s CLIPBOARD sel https://bbs.archlinux.org/ $ cutsel -s PRIMARY cut https://bbs.archlinux.org/ $ cutsel -s PRIMARY sel test1 Testcase B: Using 'autocutsel -selection PRIMARY -fork &' in my .xinitrc i copy "test2" using the mouse selection and https://bbs.archlinux.org/ using a right click+copy on firefox from the Arch homepage. Heres what cutsel reports: $ cutsel -s CLIPBOARD cut test2 $ cutsel -s CLIPBOARD sel https://bbs.archlinux.org/ $ cutsel -s PRIMARY cut test2 $ cutsel -s PRIMARY sel test2 Testcase C: Using both 'autocutsel -fork &' as well as 'autocutsel -selection PRIMARY -fork &' in my .xinitrc i copy "test3" using the mouse selection and https://bbs.archlinux.org/ using a right click+copy on firefox from the Arch homepage. Heres what cutsel reports: $ cutsel -s CLIPBOARD cut test3 $ cutsel -s CLIPBOARD sel test3 $ cutsel -s PRIMARY cut test3 $ cutsel -s PRIMARY sel test3 Which is *mandatory* now for users who have installed the autocutsel package from [community]? The worst possible one, testcase C. Like Heiko said you lose the advantage of the 'second clipboard'. PS. This shows one of the reasons i recently opened a feature request in the bug tracker asking to give some emphasis on documentation distributed with packages in general. The wiki is a very good resource but it isn't always right and its certainly not a comprehensive resource of knowledge. ---- Greg
