From: "Carlos Pereira" [jose.carlos.pere...@ist.utl.pt], Date: 10/02/2011 09:10:
>> something), but aside from that it's a pure waste of CPU cycles.
> I am sorry, I totally disagree.
> I can only see two cases. Either fixing these hundreds and hundreds of
> mem leaks is easy or difficult.
> In the
From: "dhk", Date: 20/04/2010 09:46:
> On 04/19/2010 01:34 PM, Nicolas Soubeiran wrote:
>> When creating your model set a specific column with a boolean property.
>> gtk_list_store_new(N_COLUMN, G_TYPE_STRING, G_TYPE_BOOLEAN);
>>
>> Then in the treeview create a column using
>> gtk_tree_view_colum
> On Fri, 2010-01-29 at 00:27 -0500, Freddie Unpenstein wrote:
>> One thing did occur to me, though. It's kind of annoying when you click
>> a check menu item, and the menu doesn't go away. And having some
>> that do, and some that don't, would probably drive me
>> Or are you saying the libraries (gtk/mpfr/stdc) I'm using may be caching
>> the locale and may not heed my changes?
> Since Gtk+ does not have any mechanism to rebuild the UI when a locale
> category changes, either you implement such mechanism or, more often,
> put up with it and accept the loc
> On Sun, 31 Jan 2010, james morris wrote:
>> Generally, changing locale locally is fragile and better avoided.
>>
>> I've tried the above out by storing the current locale setting, changing
>> it to "C" and then restoring the locale setting once read/write is
>> finished and it seems to work (I in
> Using Python and PyGTK I've got a GtkMenu with various GtkCheckMenuItems
> in it. When the user clicks one of the checkboxes the menu closes. I'd
> like for the user to be able to check a series of checkboxes without the
> menu closing each time.
I looked into this myself a while back, and gave
From: dev...@iamaquatics.org, Date: 25/08/2009 16:50, Wrote:
> The eventual goal is to create a program to log incidents at an
> aquatic facility. As of right now, I am just trying to write some
> small simple things to stretch out my [programming] legs.
>
> The goal is to connect to the database
From: "Michael Torrie", Date: 31/07/2009 02:49, Wrote:
> If you are hell-bent on a system-wide GTK, then you need to do it the
> way that Gaim for win32 used to. They would install GTK to C:\Program
> Files\Common Files\GTK\%version%. Then their own app would go to
> C:\Program Files\Gaim. The mag
>> And the waste of space argument is so last century.
>
> Wast of space is somewhat outdated, you are right. But larger packages
> need to be transmitted, and I heard rumours there are areas (somewhere
> outside Europe) which do not have Gigabit to the household ;-)
Not everyone is free from the
Howdy folks... I'm stuck trying to find a non-horribly-hackish way to do
something... So here goes...
I have a ListStore containing records (rows) of the usual kinda thing, date,
description, a few other fields.
Selecting a row in the TreeView, brings up a dialog with that records details,
a
I'm Iooking for the current gtk/gio/gnome "best practice" for working with
CD/DVD's... In particular, figuring out how much stuff I can cram onto one, and
then cramming it on.
There's a whole bunch of different disk sizes, formats, filesystem options,
filesystem limitations, etc., and I need to
You can use a few tricks to help manage these one-shot constructs...
One that I used quite a while ago, was a wrapper around a simple array that
stores array size and free functions for each member, so a simple "free"
function can rip through and clear everything out. It's good as long as you'r
From: "Stefan Kost" , 22/02/2009 21:59:
>> I'm running my program with --g-fatal-warnings at the end of the command
>> line. I don't know whether that flag does anything in PyGTK, though.
> That flag work on Glib level and makes warnings fatal to be able to get a
> backtrace in gdb. For refcounts
This is a side-topic, raised by developments in handling DBus, but something I
feel is worth asking... Is there any mechanism for making working with
asynchronous stuff easier?
Quite often I've had a situation where I've needed to collect several pieces of
information from various asynchronous
From: "Rorschach", on 17/11/2008 03:54 :
> I wanna write a little battery-indicator in C with GTK. It's already working
> nicly in the console and I know how to write a trayicon with gtk but what
> I don't know is: how can I show the current capacity of the battery? I mean
> shall I do 100 picture
From: "Garth's KidStuff" on 06/11/2008 :
>> This logic works impeccably (*grin*) until the CPU is under heavy load. In
>> that case, I can see the invalidate_rect calls happening but
>> on_expose_event doesn't get called until the cpu load is back to normal.
>> I've been banging my head against th
From: "Rorschach" , 28/10/2008:
> I discovered exactly the same odd behavior like you did:
> http://rorschachstagebuch.wordpress.com/. !
> changed_mask always gets the value GDK_WINDOW_STATE_ICONIFIED when switching
> the desktop.
> I also asked here but nobody answered me... Did really noon
From: "Thomas Dybdahl Ahle" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> søn, 31 08 2008 kl. 05:23 -0400, skrev Freddie Unpenstein:
>> GTK provides the facility to have a GtkNotebook without tabs. But as
>> far as I can tell, it doesn't provide the facility to have tabs
>> without
GTK provides the facility to have a GtkNotebook without tabs. But as far as I
can tell, it doesn't provide the facility to have tabs without the notebook
pages. It seems somehow strange to me, and causes people to hack together
their own button bars that function vaguely like Notebook tabs but
From: Kevin DeKorte
> I'd like to create a panel that slides out of the way, little
> animation kinda thing and I had something working but gtk really
> didn't slide it out of the way it just showing the first and then
> the last. Now I understand that due to performance that not every
> panel cha
Some thoughts about some of the alternative widget sets presented, and how I
personally view them as applying to GTK... Most of this I've been mulling over
on and off for a while, in one form or another. So I've decided to take this
opportunity (since I didn't know most of these toolkits even
> hi.sorry i sent an incomplete message.it was an error.well, am
> trying to build a gui that will interact with ARtoolkit which also
> uses C as language and contain OpenGl libraries as well.i`ve manage
> to copy some of the header files (e.g callback.h, interface.h,etc)
Are you trying to embed
> > He shouldn't, but as a user of libglade who DID go and out figure
> > out how to use it (I do still have some "best libglade practices"
> > issues to figure out, though), I don't see why I can't back him up
> > in so far as what I see as a good point.
> Do the packagers read this list?
> Do th
This message appears to have been cross-posted from gtk-devel-list, so I guess
I'd better cross-post it back again. Anyhow...
> The rectangle drawing code is from cairo snippets. My first
> idea was to put a balloon, but I don't know how to draw it quickly
> yet since I've just started learnin
> > Especially since glade is pushing the use of libglade as THE
> > way to incorporate glade-produced layouts into applications,
> > libglade should be packaged so as to encourage just that. Not
> > make it hard for application developers to figure out how to use
> > it. In any case, this is more
> what you MUST do, is download the tarball and see if the maintainer
> included any helpfull files to help you understand how to use
> the library, one of those helpfull files is test-libglade.c, a full
> fledged example of all the uses of libglade.
I haven't been following this thread all too c
> > > A point I miss in the tutorial is to mention the
> > > G_DEFINE_TYPE()-like macros which should be prefered over
> > > manually defining a _get_type() function whenever possible.
> > I never did get that G_DEFINE_TYPE() stuff at all... It'd be
> > good to see some clear documentation on it.
> A point I miss in the tutorial is to mention the G_DEFINE_TYPE()-like
> macros which should be prefered over manually defining a _get_type()
> function whenever possible.
I never did get that G_DEFINE_TYPE() stuff at all... It'd be good to see some
clear documentation on it.
Fredderic
On Sun 12/17, David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Are there no comparison operations other than g_string_equal in
> > order to facilitate the sorting of GList objects that contain
> > GStrings?
> Any C stringcomparison function is usable on gstring->str. Yes,
> you have to write the one-line wra
On Thu 12/14, Liam R E Quin < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-15-12 at 09:28 +0530, Preeti Joshi wrote:
> > Does GTK have a bug that doesn't free the memory used by a window
> > (say dialog) even after it has been destroyed?
> It's often simpler to keep dialogues around and hide/show the
On Sun 11/26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] < [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
> I am about to start a new app, and would like to improve my
> programming style. I have been using global variables to pass data
> from "popup" windows back to a main window. I have seen discussion
> about using g_object_set_data, but have no
On Fri 10/27, David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> would it really improve anything? if people complain
> about embossed labels without trying the non-embossed
> look, does it tell anything (beside the fact they don't
> care that much)? see
> http://kf.fyz.fce.vutbr.cz/~yeti/tmp/gtk-no-emboss.png
On Mon 10/23, James Scott Jr < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
> I am about to write the socket module of a program that follows the
> gnu standard structure for a daemon. I am using glib wherever
> possible and have a question concerning the use of linux signals.
> Basically, I have blocked all signal
> > > You can't use GTK+ from multiple threads on Win32.
> > Can you give some more details Tor? I've done it, so then maybe
> > my program is buggy and I don't know it yet :)
> Search the list archives, this has been discussed several times ;)
> Or are you actually just scheduling stuff to be exe
> I have an application that creates a small borderless window
> containing an "always below" icon, with the taskbar and pager skip
> hints turned on so it doesn't show anywhere except where it's put
> on the desktop.
> The urgency hint works just fine as long as the window is listed in
> the task
Greetings peoples of the gtk-app-devel list...
I have an application that creates a small borderless window containing an
"always below" icon, with the taskbar and pager skip hints turned on so it
doesn't show anywhere except where it's put on the desktop.
I'd like it to occasionally appear in
Someone said some stuff...
> GTK+ does not work like, say, KDE or windows. You have to drag
> when you have finished your multiple selection without clicking
> again (keep your finger on the mouse button). If you click again,
> as you say your multiple selection will have gone.
Does GtkTreeView
Yeah yeah... I'm running a little behind. Nothing unusual there. ;)
On Mon 09/18, Tor Lillqvist < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
> Felix Kater writes:
> > g_module_* is a great thing -- I just wonder if there is a way
> > to not create function pointers for each single function I need
> > but jus
Just some musings... I suspect this has been discussed before, though I
couldn't find anything in a cursory glance through the search engine. (But
then I'm notoriously hopeless with search engines)
> > Next thing is, that GLib memory subsystem don't really free memory
> > on g_free(), but do
When creating a GtkImage from a stock icon, you need to tell it the size of the
image to create, as one of the GTK_ICON_SIZE_* constants.
What I want is to find out programatically, how large those sizes are in pixels.
The reason: I've got a function which takes either a stock icon id, or a
fi
On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 06:24:05AM -0400, Freddie Unpenstein wrote:
> > Normally, I use gtk_widget_show_all() on the main window once it's
> > fully constructed, to bring everything to life. But how does that
> > work, if you want to leave a widget or two hidden?
> See
Ages ago, someone who's name I forgot to copy'n'paste said:
> call gtk_widget_show_all on that particular window.
> Calling **show_all is equivalent to saying
> "I am done adding widgets".
This reminded me of something... Normally, I use gtk_widget_show_all() on the
main window once it's fully
> if you want to make non-blocking dialogs, you have to take care
> i.e. that:
> - a lot of non-blocking-dialogs may be opened, and stay open.
gtk_widget_present() comes in handy there... I *ALWAYS* do that with
Preferences dialogues... Instead of disabling prefs menu options, or ignoring
the
> I don't think it is supposed to work like this. I mean, two
> overlapping widgets in a fixed. But maybe I am off. (BTW:
> I tested your code under Gnu/Linux, a fairly recent Ubuntu.
> Samebehaviour: the DrawingArea covers up the button).
What I don't understand, is why the widgets aren't just p
> i am facing a problem in mouse click. i am using iconview to
> display some items to the user. I want the items to be activated at
> single mouse click only. and even in case of double or triple mouse
> clicks it should be fired only once. Now here is the problem How
> should i ignore the mu
> Hello all, I am using the probress bar to show the progress of some
> event. Initially i have some text in theprogress bar. After the
> event is complete, i change the text on the progress bar.. But it
> is not getting changed... But once i minimise the window and then
> maximise it, the text on
> Yes, I'm using Glade and I knew there was a better way to do
> this :) Thanks a lot.So i'll try to set padding for my labels.One
> more thing: what about if my problem now is with vertical
> alignment? i.e.my labels are so close to the top border of the
> window.
Avoid using hacks like labl
> > Add a unix signal number in the signal handler, and suck it out
> > again in a custom event source's prepare method. The prepare
> > method can return -1 for its timeout contribution, and true/false
> > if there's something in the queue.
> So... poll *will* exit because of the signal... but wi
> You are absolutely right; mutexes /are/ useless from signal
> handlers. It seems the only reasonable way is to use a pipe().
How about GAsyncQueue's? They're supposed to be thread safe without the need
of locking... How about within a single thread?
Add a unix signal number in the signal ha
> > That's well over 1548533 executions (I forgot to print the
> > counter after the 10th second) of the idle callback, or
> > 172059 calls to the idler function per second. Personally,
> > I'd call that a busy wait.
> Its not a busy wait; your idle handler has never returned FALSE;
> so whenever
> Going back to your original point, it is definitely not a
> "busy wait".
I just rolled together a quick test... A GTK main loop running two "sources".
First an "event source" created using g_timeout_add() that prints the current
count each second, and halting the program (via gtk_main_quit()
> I'm fairly new to GTK programming, and I'm helping out on an open
> source GTK-based project (gcvs, part of the cvsgui project.) We
> have a GtkListStore with a column containing date. The column is
> specified as G_TYPE_STRING. When sorted, it does an alphanumeric
> sort, so in English it pu
On Thu 02/23, Colossus wrote:
> > you must pass the list's head node pointer to g_slist_free(), which
> > you will lost if you use Files_to_Add directly (in fact, it will
> > always be null after the while loop)
> Thank you all, I discovered a memory leak in my code. I was not
> freeing the data
Original message written by someone, somewhen...
> I wish it was possible to control tooltips position (they are
> always at the bottom of the widget an I cannot visually tie them
> to the appropriate `area') and use marked up text, like bold and
> stuff.
The tooltips code is really quite straig
> > I've managed to trash X while playing with widgets that use grabs...
> Maybe a stupid question, but have you tried Ctrl-Alt-KP_Divide to
> ungrab or the more brutal Ctrl-Alt-KP_Multiply to kill the naughty
> client? (if you have these enabled)
Here's probably an even more stupid question. T
This message is a couple days old... I'm suprised there isn't a reply yet,
that I can see anyhow (hopefully I'm not missing messages).
> I'm new to GTK and am having problems that I don't understand ...
> thanks in advance to anyone who can take a look ...I'm trying to
> use a GTKTable (create
> i've had several problems with X freezing up because of some
> misbehaviour from some graphical app. The keyboard is locked so
> it's hopeless to try CTRL+ALT+BKSP
Not wrong there... Not even switching consoles is possible time times...
> > When the system locks up, is the computer still ali
> What I need to do is somehow create the connection when the button
> is clicked and then pass the sockfd to the calling part of the
> programming (main) so I can then use that in the calls to send().
> What I really need is someone to point me in the right direction.
How many connections will y
> I've made some progress on my program and now i would like to check
> formemory leaks. Do you recommend any way or program in special for
> doing this?
Something I've sometimes found useful, was to write a little chunk of code that
throws up a small window that holds a list view, into which I
> Hi,I'm wanting to load two images and fade between them much like
> the ImageMagick command:
> composite --dissolve 100 image1.jpg image2.jpg output.jpg
> However I'm wanting to display the image as it dissolves from one
> image to the other - so it will apear as if one image is dissolving
> int
> I'm tying to change the background colour of an independant cell
> of a GtkTreeView. I have utility functions to change the colour
> of a row, adding a new column to the GtkTreeModeland use it to
> set the row colour. When i created the GtkTreeViewColumns, i've
> created a new GtkCellRendererT
> It is the trade-off of the policy that "the selected item is under
> the pointer in the just shown popup, period." I think it is
> generally good, but this is an example of where it shows its
> drawbacks. However, for the sake of UI consistency, I believe it
> should _not_ be changed. I.e. it be
> > I have found the g_open function. But I think it just open the
> > file and is there some fucntions for write/read operation?
> No, because there isn't any reason not to use the normal write()
> system call (Unix) / function (Win32).
I must say, I wouldn't mind some of the more common functio
> There is a problem in the set of piped command above. The last
> filename (the one in bzip2) must be different from the first one
> (the one in cat) otherwise I get a bzip2 unexpected file end
> error.
The final redirection truncates the original file. Which is where the magic of
temporary fi
> I would like to insert a close button, on the notebook tab, like
> gedit did, and i'm looking for an easy solution, or would one
> explain me how to do it ?
Personally, I much prefer to have one close button off to the side of the tabs
like Mozilla lets me do, rather than wasting space within
> I'm beginning to learn and use GTK+. Here is the steps that I
> believe are needed to build an GTK+ application:
> 1. Initialize the library.
Generally happens in main...
> 2. Create widgets and set attributes.
> 3. Register callback routines.
Those two go together... Either load a glade UI
> The ability to search through a TreeView is interesting but it may
> not be obvious to the final user that he has to hit Ctrl+F and I'd
> rather prefer the typeahead window to be always visible. Thus, I
> would like to know if it was possible to call explicitly the search
> function ? This way,
> > I was wondering how it is possible to sense when a widget is
> > closed by the user and send change a specific variable as a
> > result.
> Either connect to "destroy" signal, or use g_object_weak_ref().
> The handler can change a global variable.
If you store the pointer to the window in a g
> As I understand it string = g_strdup_printf(... produces a copy and
> points string towards that copy, the adress of the copy is then
> passed on by g_signal_connect as the data pointer, hence freeing
> string destroys the string and should not be done (and doing it
> produces random output in t
> i am incrementing count just using a for loop, and what ever the
> value variable is having will be displayed in gtk_entry. like that
> i can able to display the increment value in gtk_entry.
First of all, why on earth are you using a for loop!? Either user a timeout or
an idle, to increment
> I use gtk_text_buffer_delete this way:
> if (textbuf != NULL) {
> gtk_text_buffer_get_start_iter (textbuf,&start);
> gtk_text_buffer_get_end_iter (textbuf,&end);
> gtk_text_buffer_delete (textbuf,&start,&end);
> }
As an aside, there is a function that will get both iters at th
> > Anyone know how to use a GtkSizeGroup in glade2? I can't see it
> > anywhere in the tool palette.
> I don't believe you can do this using Glade - you have to use a
> mixture of Glade for the basic widgets and then code to setup the
> GtkSizeGroup.
I was afraid you'd say that. heh
Think I'
Here's a quick question for all you glade fans...
Anyone know how to use a GtkSizeGroup in glade2? I can't see it anywhere in
the tool palette.
Failing that, here's what I need to do:
A GtkTable with three rows of four columns. The first column should be freely
sized like usual, but the widg
> I have written a program pretty much by re-adjusting the scribble
> example from the GTK Tutorial, instead of creating my own PixMap in
> the configure_event I called the following function which creates a
> pixmap from file:
>pixbuf = gdk_pixbuf_new_from_file(filename,NULL);
There's y
> I was wondering whether or not it is possible to display a .jpeg,
> .png or .bmp in the drawing area and then be able to draw lines
> over this image. If this is possible, what functions can I use in
> order to get the image from file and then be able to display the
> image in thedrawing area.
Answers to comments from several people here... No particular order.
> The freedom of designing a GUI without using a GUI while doing so?
> What else? Writing C programs without using a C compiler during
> development?
What, you saying you can't? I've built some moderately complicated 3D mode
> I would support the inclusion of Code generation
> in GLADE UI Editor. It is a welcome feature, for those
> who would like it. If its not to be in the main tree
> atleast put the code into a plugin thats enabled
> at default, and users can turn it off, if they prefer.
Personally, I don't think
> I sucessfully loaded a image using pixbufs, but now i face the
> difiiculty of loading multiple images in a window and those images
> are transparent one. so each must be visible.
You mean all overlapping each other? You can only display a single "flat"
image (animations not counted). So if
> > garray = g_array_new (FALSE, FALSE, sizeof (Machine));
> > for (i = 1; i < 1; i++){
> > Machine *newMach = machine_new(i,"trd11","d11","joe");
> > g_array_append_val (garray, newMach);
> Two problems here: You pass a *pointer* to Machine, not
> a Machine, so a pointer is stored into garra
> Question 1. Is it possible to have an image (Jpeg) displayed and
> have a drawing area overlayed on top but still be able to view the
> image below it. If a drawing area is not allowed, is it possible to
> put something that resembles a drawing area over an image where the
> x/y coordinates from
> When the docs are insufficient, you can always take a look at the
> source. Take advantage of this whole "open source" thing :-)
> So, it copies the list and references the pixbufs in it. Given
> enough experience with the way that GTK+ works, this isn't
> particularly surprising, but the docs
I've gone looking through the API, and I'll be stuffed if I can figure
something out...
As I understand it, you're supposed to load the icons into GdkPixbuf's, store
them in a GSList, and then feed that list to the
gtk_window_set_default_icon_list() function. But what then?
Does the function
Greetings again... Geeze I'm asking a lot today. ;)
Back onto the GtkTextViews... After the wonderful responces from my query re:
drawing a line across a text view, I now have a reasonably simple piece of code
to do it automagically, except that it only supports one line per GtkTreeView
at
I've looked through the GTK2 API, and I've poked around in this forum, but I'll
be stuffed if I can find a way to figure out aproximately how much memory the
text in a GtkTextBuffer is taking up.
I'm storing a log file, and it's almost all ASCII, so the byte and character
counts should be almo
I'm just wondering if anyone can shed some light on a small question I've been
asking myself for quite a while...
When manually building a window (or part thereof), with all its containers and
widgets, I generally create the window, then create and add the containers and
widgets as I go along.
> > I was wondering if anyone knows how I could draw a horizontal red
> > line across a GtkTextView buffer.
> The best solution I found was to just draw directly onto the view
> through the expose-event using drawable.draw_line etc.
Ahhh. I think that may be what I was waiting for...
You wo
> > I was wondering if anyone knows how I could draw a horizontal
> > red line across a GtkTextView buffer.
> > I could probably throw in a GtkHSeperator widget, or something,
> > but it's not a red line.
> Well, you can always use your own widget, which can be whatever
> you wish, for instance a
> I'm making a small drawing program with GTK, and I'm having an
> issue that's also in the "scribble" example tutorial (using this as
> an example because people would likely know what I'm talking about
> that way). Anyways, the issue that I'm having is that the program
> doesn't receive mouse mo
Greetings people of the list...
I was wondering if anyone knows how I could draw a horizontal red line across a
GtkTextView buffer.
I could probably throw in a GtkHSeperator widget, or something, but it's not a
red line.
I could throw in an image which is a red line, but how would I get it to
> hey man ... relax ... i think you may be the fisrt in the entire
> universe that want to implement something like this ! :D
> serius, if no one response you, probably it can be an new attempt to
> the most of us :S ... it does not mean disinterest !!
Indeed... I for one wouldn't mind adding "D
> the g_signal_connect works like what?
>g_signal_connect(GTK_WIDGET(widget),
>signal("clicked"),G_CALLBACK(Function),
>(gpointer) "Data");
> but the callbacks functions have the GtkWidget *Widget as a 1st
> parameter, and... well, i simply don't get it. =)
Lots of answers, me
> I wonder what g_usleep does if it is called from inside an idle
> function. Could that lead to recursion since the idle functions is
> called when the cpu has idle time?
Idle functions in Glib are basically a kind of timer, with a zero timeout, and
a very low priority. The main loop does its
> how i can use g_io_channel to make a simple "echo"-server?
libgnet comes with a simple example which does exactly that.
Which reminds me... Does anyone know the differences between gnet and
gnetwork? Which is the more "GNOME sanctioned" of the two?
Fredderic
> > > I'm currently coding a small application. I want the main
> > > window to remember its size and position every time it is
> > > started.
> > I believe that's the job of the window manager...
> > That's why you can set a couple different names for your window.
> I believed this, too. But it
> I'm currently coding a small application. I want the main window to
> remember its size and position every time it is started.
I believe that's the job of the window manager...
That's why you can set a couple different names for your window.
Fredderic
> I am new to gtk, and trying my hand at writing a mp3player, I
> am working on the point of the player that when one song is done
> playing it will load and play the next song. How do I run a test
> function every couple milli seconds to check to see if it is still
> playing or not? is g_timeout_
> Is there a way I can make my application be just a popup menu? I
> mean, when the user opens it, there is no window, it automatically
> pops up a menu right where the mouse pointer is. Is that possible?
Why not? I wrote a console utility that uses GTK to rip text out of the
clipboard (I stil
> > The short of it is that in both Linux and Windows, there is no
> > "system-wide" clipboard (there's no clipboard in the Windows
> > console-level step-by-step boot before the GUI starts). However,
> > there is a lovely clipboard mechanism provided by the X GUI, and
> > supported by GTK+. You
> > bunch of OHM and OMEGA signs, subtle differences in characters.
> Of course, the reason why they have different code points is not
> that they might look different (this is just a coincidence, caused
> by Pango rendering them from different typefaces). The reason the
> separate ohm sign exist
> What I want to do is put user selected text onto the (a?)
> system-wide clipboard. How to do this using GTK+? BTW, I come from
> Windows world.
Both Windows and Linux have GUI-wide (NOT system-wide) clipboards. In Windows,
seperating the System from the GUI is almost impossible. But good ol
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