Re: Clipboard IO under GTK/GDK?

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

learfox furry ao net writes: 
> I'm not sure I understand, why dosen't gtk just have an XPutBuffer() and
> XFetchBuffer() like Xlib has?

Those are for cut buffers, which are obsolete. Most apps don't support
cut buffers anymore.

You should instead use the CLIPBOARD selection which is an
asynchronous protocol to avoid extra copies, and supports non-text
data. The selection mechanism is documented in the ICCCM.

Havoc