Re: clipboard again (was Re: Gnumeric and RHEL3)

[mortenw gnome org (Morten Welinder)]

There are no points for *talking* about fixing xterm.  You need to do
it and then sit down and wait for deployment.

Now with my code, on the other hand:

                 gnm_app_prefs->prefer_clipboard_selection
                 ? GDK_SELECTION_CLIPBOARD
                 : GDK_SELECTION_PRIMARY);

things actually work as expected on my desktop.  (Featuring mozilla,
Emacs, xterm, and gnumeric.)  If it is inconsistent, I have yet to
see and suffer it.

Apart from small pieces of gconf code, the above sniplet is all that
was needed.  (That includes lots of gtk2 widgets.)  That's not much
bloat for a "works as expected" system.  In particular, I can mark
text in Xterm or Emacs using the mouse and paste it into Gnumeric.

There are a gazillion people out there using xterm.  Outside the Linux
world, it's more or less what you have.  Not being able to interoperate
using cut-and-paste (in "man xterm" terms) is just plain arrogant.

Morten