On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 10:35:04PM +0100, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > This should probably be reported to the klipper people.
They almost undoubtedly consider it a feature. The polling is necessary to pick up /changes/ in the selection - that's how the URL action popup etc. can work. I have a strong suspicion that XSelectionRequestEvent.requestor will prove to be a useful workaround here. > Currently we handle selection done with the keyboard differently from > selection done with the mouse. It's a terrible mess altogether. I tried some time ago to unify and simplify the handling of selections, and failed miserably ... > Mouse uses XSetSelectionOwner, Key doesn't. it shouldn't be hard to do, hopefully there's a single point in lyx we can send the event ... regards john -- I am a complete moron for forgetting about endianness. May I be forever marked as such.