Hi, Brion Vibber <brion@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > After a lot of recompiling, I've managed to get 2.1 running from > CVS. It seems to be doing _something_ with the clipboard, but I > haven't yet gotten anything resembling an image out of it. Is there > any X11-based program known to interoperate with it that I could test > with to make sure it's working? The easiest way to test is to use a second instance of GIMP. Another application that is known to work is the word-processor Abiword. Here are some links that explain how the X clipboard is supposed to be used: http://tronche.com/gui/x/icccm/ http://www.jwz.org/doc/x-cut-and-paste.html http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/clipboards-spec/clipboards.txt GIMP passes image data in the PNG format and announces it using the "image/png" mimetype identifier. > Either Gimp or GTK+ could be hacked up to use the Mac clipboard > directly, I suppose. Any opinions on what's the correct place to do > this? It definitely belongs into GTK+ in the long run. Perhaps it would be good to start a GDK backend for MacOS X that is based on the GDK-X11 backend but deals with clipboard and other interoperability issues. Sven
