Bug 795

Summary:	use CLIPBOARD instaed of PRIMARY as the X selection source
Product:	Sisyphus	Reporter:	imz <vanyaz>
Component:	emacs-X11	Assignee:	Ivan Zakharyaschev <imz>
Status:	CLOSED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P4
Version:	unstable
Hardware:	all
OS:	Linux

Description

imz 2002-04-07 17:38:53 MSD

\&quot;clipboard\&quot;-scheme is more consistent with what people expect from \&quot;cut-copy-paste\&quot;.

Detailed description can be found here: <a href="http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/clipboards.txt">http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/clipboards.txt</a>

Now Emacs uses the old \&quot;primary-selection\&quot; scheme by default.
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Play with selections in Emacs and other programs (Mozilla) and observe it with xclipboard.

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Set x-select-enable-clipboard to true to change the scheme.

Comment 1

imz 2002-04-13 19:13:57 MSD

x-select-enable-clipboard set to t (true) in emacs-21.2-alt1. 
To revert to the old scheme, set it to nil. (But still I think you wouldn\'t want to do this: the new scheme fisrt tries the clipboard, and if it is empty, it follows the old scheme. And I beleive that an application that isn\'t able to copy the selection to the clipboard is not perfect -- you may use xclipbaord for such cases.)

Comment 2

imz 2002-04-13 19:13:57 MSD

x-select-enable-clipboard set to t (true) in emacs-21.2-alt1. 
To revert to the old scheme, set it to nil. (But still I think you wouldn\'t want to do this: the new scheme fisrt tries the clipboard, and if it is empty, it follows the old scheme. And I beleive that an application that isn\'t able to copy the selection to the clipboard is not perfect -- you may use xclipbaord for such cases.)