Re: pointer/etc

[Vlad Harchev <hvv hippo ru>]

On 12 Oct 2001, Havoc Pennington wrote:
 Hi, 

 Yes, I knew that - just didn't mention in order not to confuse Alexey.
Anyway, it seems no gtk (and moreover qt) program utilizes more than 2
selections (primary and clipboard).

> 
> Vlad Harchev <hvv hippo ru> writes: 
> >  There are 2 selections in X (accessible by user) - primary and secondary.
> > Primary is when you Ctrl-C something in some app, secondary contains the text
> > you just select with mouse. Add to that that Qt selection support is broken
> > horribly (may be you are testing with some Qt app).
> 
> There's an infinite number of selections, three are in the ICCCM:
>  - PRIMARY - currently selection 
>  - SECONDARY - useless
>  - CLIPBOARD - clipboard
> 
> See http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/clipboards.txt
> 
> Havoc
> 

 Best regards,
  -Vlad