Heiko Baums wrote:
Sorry, but I still don't know why I should need autocutsel. The old, X standard way just works. I never had any problems and I never felt the need for something different.
And I really don't want to read tons of documentations about a tool I don't need. And because I don't need it I don't want to be forced to using it, and I don't want to be forced to using it the way an admin thinks I should use it.
Like I said before, the clipboards of at least KDE and Xfce, and I bet Gnome's clipboard, too, allow me to synchronize both buffers or to keep them separated. And I can move the clipboard content from one buffer to the other with those DE's clipboards.
Why do I need autocutsel? People who need or want it, can install it separately. But, if it's installed, the user must have the possibility to configure it the way he wants and he must have the choice of running or not running it.
And as far as I know there's a way to start and configure it in ~/.xinitrc. So this is the way to go within the autocutsel package. Well, if there's a system wide config then it must be possible to have this changed/overwritten by the user to his needs.
You seem to be under the impression that this is going to be the default for all users. I never said that. I specifically said that this affects only the people using the autocutsel package from [community]. Autocutsel is useful for people not using a DE and want to adjust the behaviour of the X clipboard. If you are already provided with such a tool, or the way X deals with clipboard contents by default suits you then you don't need it. ---- Greg