From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 5672 invoked by alias); 4 Jan 2004 09:35:49 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-xfree-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 5665 invoked from network); 4 Jan 2004 09:35:47 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO sv11.futurismworks.jp) (210.188.245.82) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 4 Jan 2004 09:35:47 -0000 Received: (qmail 11192 invoked from network); 4 Jan 2004 09:35:48 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mint.workgroup.peppermint.jp) (61.203.163.13) by 0 with SMTP; 4 Jan 2004 09:35:48 -0000 Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2004 09:35:00 -0000 Message-ID: From: Kensuke Matsuzaki To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: Re: X11 Selections In-Reply-To: <3FF7C513.8000107@msu.edu> References: <3FF74FFF.4000008@msu.edu> <3FF75CCA.3030705@msu.edu> <3FF7C513.8000107@msu.edu> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.10.1 (Watching The Wheels) SEMI/1.14.4 (Hosorogi) FLIM/1.14.5 (Demachiyanagi) APEL/10.6 Emacs/21.3 (i386-redhat-linux-gnu) MULE/5.0 (SAKAKI) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.4 - "Hosorogi") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-SW-Source: 2004-01/txt/msg00064.txt.bz2 List-Id: Harold, I think you were working on XFIXES extention to solve #1. Is that another solution? > 1) Stop stealing the selection ownership as a means to tell when the > clipboard has changed within X. > > 2) Don't require an X Client connection and try to remove the dependency > on Xlib. > > The new code solves problem #1, but it does nothing for #2, since we > still need an X Client connection to receive the contents of the > selection and we still need Xlib to convert the selection into the > desired format. I am not sure how long it will take us to remove these > two dependencies, so I am going to release the solution to problem #1 in > the mean time. I am not sure that we will ever deem it worth the time > and effort to solve problem #2. -- Kensuke Matsuzaki mailto:zakki@peppermint.jp http://peppermint.jp