Re: X clipboard

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 07:30, Russell Shaw wrote:
> Anthony Dean wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> >    I'm looking for documentation on supporting the X clipboard (simple 
> > left button select, middle button past of text) in a gtk app.  Anyone 
> > know where I should look?  I'm not even sure if it's possible given my 
> > programs crappy design, but it would certainly be nice.
>
> http://www.gtk.org/tutorial/ch-managingselections.html

While that stuff still works, its really far from the easiest way
to use the clipboard in GTK+-2.x. See:

 http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/gtk-Clipboards.html

Also, see:

 http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/clipboards-spec/
 
For explanation of why what you describe above is *not* the X clipboard.

Regards,
                                                Owen