copying with the middle mouse button

"Clemens Zeidler" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.xfree86.devel
Message-ID <op.s3ofpirjirspuj@lx3a10>
Hi,
could anybody tell me how this work? I mean how does the x-server know  
which text is selected? Must every
application sent a message to the xserver that something is selected?
Or sent the xserver a copy command to the active application when a mouse  
button is released?
thx a lot

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