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

Matthias Clasen matthias.clasen at gmail.com
Sun Apr 14 18:33:03 PDT 2013


On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 1:33 PM, Yichao Yu <yyc1992 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Clipboard managers are pretty specialized clients, and you usually
only run at most one of them in your session - why confuse all other
clients with the extra events ?


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