Re: Clipping Files

["Iain" <tigermilk btinternet com>]

> Basically anything you can select and copy/cut to
> the clipboard can instead be draged and dropped
> on the decktop. A clipping file is then created with this
> selection. then it can be dropped onto any app and to
> the app it looks like a regular paste.

This isn't how the X clipboard works.
All that gets put on the Xclipboard is a note saying that 
Application X currently has the selection
and that it can supply data in formats A B C.
No data ever goes to the clipboard.

(Or I'm probably talking crap)
iain