[Wayland-bugs] [Bug 759626] Clipboard (copy-and-paste) Wayland→Wayland or Wayland→X11 from closed applications is broken

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https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=759626

Matthias Clasen <mclasen at redhat.com> changed:

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--- Comment #5 from Matthias Clasen <mclasen at redhat.com> ---
(In reply to Michael Catanzaro from comment #4)
> (In reply to Jonas Ådahl from comment #3)
> > Why would there be a need for a new request? Is it for making the client
> > control what selections would be more "persistent" than others or something?
> > Otherwise, it should work already, the way same clipboard.c in weston works.
> 
> Oooh, didn't know about this.
> 
> Yeah, it's clearly not necessary if we store selection data automatically...
> my mind jumped to it because it's required in ICCM. So we can avoid this
> complexity.
> 
> The original purpose of the separate store request was to avoid unnecessary
> clipboard IPC overhead, but it's surely not relevant in 2016.

We will want an explicit Store for the same reasons it is necessary in X: You
don't want a clipboard manager eagerly collecting megabytes of data because you
happened to hit Ctrl-A in a big spreadsheet.

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