Joachim Noreiko wrote: > This is true -- however, the existence of the PRIMARY > system does have an impact on users, because across > all GTK application windows, there can be only one > selection. This breaks users' expectations of what an > application is, because something they do in one > window can affect the state of selection in another. > > There's a bug open for this, but most solutions > suggested so far are looking at ways to highlight the > selection considered for PRIMARY in some way, and > nothing proposed so far is entirely satisfactory. Has it been proposed that PRIMARY holds the most recent selection, but making a new selection does not deselect the previous one? This seems to be the closest match to expectations, while keeping interference between PRIMARY and clipboard to a minimum. Is there anything unsatisfactory about this? > Could there be a way to combine the two systems? Is there any need to?
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