Re: reforming gpbs

[Eric Christopherson]

On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 02:30:34AM +0200, Fred Kiefer wrote:
> Using SECONDARY is clearly wrong as stated in:
> 
> http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/clipboards-spec/clipboards.txt
> 
> What we should do is switch the use of PRIMARY and CLIPBOARD as already 
> stated in the file xpbs.m:
> 
> /*
>        * According to the new open desktop specification these
>        * two pasteboards should be switched around. That is,
>        * general should be XA_CLIPBOARD and selection
>        * XA_PRIMARY. The problem is that most X programs still
>        * use the old way. So we do the same for now.
> */
> 
> Maybe we should add a new default setting for this or use some sort of 
> environment check.

Thanks for pointing this out! For me at least, switching the two in xpbs.m
seems to result in the behavior I would expect. Honestly I don't know of any
reason to keep the old behavior... GNOME and KDE both treat PRIMARY and
CLIPBOARD in this way, and I don't know of any Xaw (or whatever older
toolkit)-based programs that even have a concept of a clipboard as separate
from a selection. Perhaps someone more experienced could correct me.

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