Re: reforming gpbs

[Aredridel]

On Sun, 2003-08-03 at 18:30, Fred Kiefer wrote:
> Using SECONDARY is clearly wrong as stated in:
> 
> http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/clipboards-spec/clipboards.txt
> 
> What we should do is switch the use of PRIMARY and CLIPBOARD as already 
> stated in the file xpbs.m:
> 
> /*
>         * According to the new open desktop specification these
>         * two pasteboards should be switched around. That is,
>         * general should be XA_CLIPBOARD and selection
>         * XA_PRIMARY. The problem is that most X programs still
>         * use the old way. So we do the same for now.
> */
> 
> Maybe we should add a new default setting for this or use some sort of 
> environment check.

I think that's definately the case -- I'd like to see the standard be
the default, too.

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