Comment by kevin_thibedeau
3 days ago
X heavily relied on the primary and secondary selections for performing operations in lieu of an explicit clipboard. It is built into the protocol. The only policy is where that paste binding defaulted to.
3 days ago
X heavily relied on the primary and secondary selections for performing operations in lieu of an explicit clipboard. It is built into the protocol. The only policy is where that paste binding defaulted to.
X doesn't even enforce primary or secondary selections, they have no special meaning to the protocol. What is built on the protocol is this mechanism to do clipboard-like things. Even how many actual clipboard thingies you have is policy and not builtin into the protocol.