Re: Pushing text onto the selection buffer (off topic)

[Matthew <matthew mattshouse com>]

Cutting and pasting was always a thorn in my side until I started using 
klipper.  It's a KDE app but it runs fine under E+Gnome.  It's a clipboard 
history that's invoked by Alt+v.  A list of the last 10 items copied to the 
clipboard pops up, and you can select which is pasted.  Excellent tool.

Matthew


> Guy Harris <gharris@flashcom.net> writes:
> > (<RANT>Note that, the belief of some UNIX users to the contrary, there's
> > more to cut-and-paste on UNIX/X systems than "select something and then
> > paste it with the middle mouse button" - there's also the same sort of
> > clipboard-based cut-and-paste that appears in other window systems.
> >
> > GTK+, bless its heart, supports that for text widgets, and Motif also
> > supports it; Qt, for some unknown reason, seems to think the universe
> > rotates around the PRIMARY selection, causing cut-and-paste between Qt
> > applications such as KDE applications, and Motif or GTK+ applications,
> > not always to work as one might like.
>
> QClipboard is broken; it always uses the primary selection. GTK could
> use a somewhat simpler clipboard interface, but Qt goes too far in
> this respect and removes important functionality. (I think they should
> probably just have QClipboard affect the clipboard selection by
> default, most of the time users are expecting that, and be sure to
> only use the default QClipboard if cut/copy are selected
> specifically, using some non-default clipboard tied to the primary
> selection otherwise.)
>
> > It might not be a bad idea if GTK+ or GDK were to export
> > "clipboard_atom" and do the
> >
> > 	clipboard_atom = gdk_atom_intern ("CLIPBOARD", FALSE);
>
> IIRC there is no reason to cache atoms this way, because GTK already
> caches them (i.e. gdk_atom_intern() is plenty fast, and you might as
> well just always call it). However most example code does the caching.
>
> Havoc
>
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