On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 03:10:17PM -0500, Derek Martin wrote: > under X if you highlight it, it is automatically and immediately > copied to the clipboard.
It's more complicated than that: http://www.jwz.org/oc/x-cut-and-paste.html Some of the newer applications, toolkits, and desktop managers may try to hide the details. For example Gnome has a built-in clipboard service which monitors selection activity and grabs a copy of any selected data. I think KDE has something similar, and there's an old standalone "xclipboard" program which does the same thing. Back in the 90s the mess was much more user-visible, especially if you were running Sun OpenLook applications alongside plain X11 applications. -Dave Dodge
