Re: copying with the middle mouse button

ok thank you that helps a lot !
> Clemens Zeidler wrote:
> 
> > 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?
> 
> 
> The burden is entirely on the application to decide what gets 
> selected
> and when it gets updated.  Yes, the app has to send a message to the
> server with the selection.  The clipboard process is more complicated 
> in
> X than it is in Windows.
> 
> If you want to read about it, chapter 10.3 of volume I of the old
> O'Reilly books on Xlib describe the process.   You can read about
> XSetSelectionOwner and XConvertSelection, and the SelectionNotify 
> event.
> 
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> Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
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