Alessandro Rubini [Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 03:58:43PM +0100]: > Nico, it looks like you reposted old messages. It's one of those > unfortunate things that happen pretty often when one writes offline > (I do that too). Same here. I am sorry, if I sent it double! > > Does someone on the list know how X handles it buffer and if we can > > access it easily ? > > There exist no X buffer. There is a protocol, and the X server acts > only as communication media. > > One application claims ownership of the selection, and others can > ask to retrieve the current "primary" selection (there more in addition > to the primary one). It's not easy at all. If I understood that correctly, if we want to exchange data selected by gpm to X, we need to register gpm as an X program and tell X we have the primary selection. > A visible effect of the server handing messages and not holding data > is that if you select text in an xterm that then exists, you won't be > able to paste that text any more. I just tested that and it seems that at least here that's not the case. I exited the xterm and now I can paste text into this one. Greetings, Nico -- Please send your messages pgp-signed and/or pgp-encrypted (don't encrypt mails to mailing list!). If you don't know what pgp is visit www.gnupg.org. (public pgp key: ftp.schottelius.org/pub/familiy/nico/pgp-key)
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