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List:       freedesktop-xorg
Subject:    Re: Where is the documentation for the clipboards?
From:       Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith () oracle ! com>
Date:       2021-01-13 16:54:05
Message-ID: abd4ed4d-68bd-64e9-512a-d55277c1b7fe () oracle ! com
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On 1/12/21 10:56 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I am not finding anything about the two clipboards over on
>     https://www.x.org/releases/current/doc/libX11/libX11/libX11.html
> 
> Is "clipboard" the wrong keyword to search for?

Correct - you need to be searching for terms such as "selections" and
"cut buffers", and looking in other documents as well, see:

https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/ClipboardsWiki/
https://www.x.org/wiki/CutAndPaste/

> Also, are there any examples out there in C land on how to read
> and write to the two clipboards?

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/app/xclipboard
https://github.com/kfish/xsel

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	-Alan Coopersmith-               alan.coopersmith@oracle.com
	 Oracle Solaris Engineering - https://blogs.oracle.com/alanc
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