New clipboard proposal

[Jakub Piotr Cłapa]

John Davidorff Pell wrote:
> For massive-data-transfer, both an X extension and some dbus  
> implementation will require transfers of huge amounts of data between  
> processes. On Winblows (M$ does get *some* things right), in M$ Word  
> when you quit word with a large clipboard it asks if you want that  
> clipboard to continue to be available after Word quits. This is just  
> what the X server should do.

I disagree. This dialog is at least very confusing and irritating. 
Better - save the contents on disk and recall them when needed. (it 
won't be a performance penalty because disk cache is working really 
great these days)
Of course clipboard history deamon will have to flush really old entries.

> P.S. I don't think anyone appreciates this super-cross posting that  
> you've done...

And your topposting either. ;]

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Jakub Piotr Cłapa