Interfacing with the X clipboard

[Adam Jackson]

On Friday 24 February 2006 03:37, James Colannino wrote:
> Hi there.  I hope this isn't the wrong list to ask.

It is.

> I'm interested in 
> learning about how to interface with the X clipboard, but have been
> searching around and haven't really found anything.  I don't know if
> perhaps I'm looking for the wrong thing, or if there just isn't that
> much documentation out there.  Either way, does anybody know of some
> good documentation that will get me started?  Thanks :)

On the semantics of the clipboard itself:
http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Standards/clipboards-spec
http://www.jwz.org/doc/x-cut-and-paste.html

On general Xlib programming, including manipulating selections:
http://webcvs.freedesktop.org/*checkout*/xorg/doc/xorg-docs/hardcopy/X11/xlib.PS.gz?rev=1.3

- ajax
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