[arch-general] What are people's opinions about this?

[Grigorios Bouzakis]

Yaro Kasear wrote:
> On Wednesday, April 13, 2011 20:45:32 Grigorios Bouzakis wrote:
>> This feature request: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/23747
>> 
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>> Greg
>
> Is this some sort of configuration utility for Xorg? A little background would 
> be nice.
>

Autocutsel is not part of the X suite. It changes the way the X
clipboards work.
http://www.nongnu.org/autocutsel

"X servers use two schemes to copy text between applications. The first
one (old and deprecated) is the cutbuffer. It is a simple buffer in
which any application can store text. The other scheme is the selection
and works differently. There may be many selections in a single server.
An application does not copy data in a selection, it "owns" it. When
another application wants to retreive the content of a selection, it
asks the owner.

Recent desktop applications (GNOME, KDE, ...) use two selections: the
PRIMARY and the CLIPBOARD. The PRIMARY selection is used when you select
some text with the mouse. You usually paste it using the middle button.
The CLIPBOARD selection is used when you copy text by using, for
example, the Edit/Copy menu. You may paste it using the Edit/Paste menu.

Windows VNC clients keep the Windows clipboard synchronized with the
cutbuffer, but not with the selections. And since recent applications
don't use the cutbuffer, the server's CLIPBOARD is never synchronized
with Windows' one.

Autocutsel tracks changes in the server's cutbuffer and CLIPBOARD
selection. When the CLIPBOARD is changed, it updates the cutbuffer. When
the cutbuffer is changed, it owns the CLIPBOARD selection. The cutbuffer
and CLIPBOARD selection are always synchronized. Since the VNC client
synchronizes the Windows' clipboard and the server's cutbuffer, all
three "clipboards" are always kept synchronized. When you copy some text
in Windows, the cutbuffer and the CLIPBOARD selection are updated. When
you copy text on the server using either the cutbuffer or the CLIPBOARD
selection, the Windows's clipboard is always updated.

You can also use autocutsel to track the PRIMARY selection to copy text
when it's selected. To do this, simply run autocutsel with the arguments
"-s PRIMARY"

Some softwares (like Open Office Writer) have trouble when the PRIMARY
selection is requested before the mouse button is released. As a
workaround, you can run autocutsel with the "-buttonup" option and it
will only get the selection when the first mouse button is not pressed."