[PATCH] selection: send selection events to all connected clients

Jiergir Ogoerg f35f22fan at gmail.com
Fri Apr 12 13:22:36 PDT 2013


> A lot of useful features require clipboard access and monitoring
> without having a keyboard focus, e.g. clipboard action (klipper[1] and
> some download agents), command line access (IPython's %paste magic).
> This patch sends out selection events to all clients when the
> selection owner changes no matter whether the client has a focus or
> not in order to support these features.

> [1] http://userbase.kde.org/Klipper
> [2] http://ipython.org/ipython-doc/dev/interactive/tutorial.html

If I got you right, I wonder if it makes sense (performance wise or logically)
sending out these additional/global events only to clients interested in these
global events.
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