Suggestion for Xorg / about middle-mouse click pasting

[Alan Coopersmith]

X11 is a much larger system than just the X server.   As that web page notes,
this is from the "X11R6 Inter-Client Communication Conventions Manual", which
documents the conventions for X clients to communicate with each other, not
the X server itself.

	-Alan Coopersmith-               alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
	 Oracle Solaris Engineering - https://blogs.oracle.com/alanc

On 7/30/20 11:39 AM, Elie Goldman Smith wrote:
> Countless people on forums say that middle-mouse pasting is an X11 feature.
> 
> This document seems to confirm that it's an X11 feature:
> https://www.jwz.org/doc/x-cut-and-paste.html
> 
> 
> Please correct me if I'm wrong.
> 
> 
> On Friday, July 24, 2020, Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith at oracle.com 
> <mailto:alan.coopersmith at oracle.com>> wrote:
> 
>     On 7/23/20 1:19 AM, Elie Goldman Smith wrote:
> 
>         Solution:
>         Middle-mouse pasting would be great as a setting that can be
>         enabled/disabled by 'xset' on the command line.
> 
>         Please let me know if this would be simple to implement.
> 
> 
>     It would not be, because it is not a X server behavior.  It is simply
>     a convention implemented in dozens of toolkits and thousands of
>     applications, with no centralized control.
> 
>     All the X server does is tell the client that button 2 was pressed, and
>     everything after that happens client side.
> 
>     -- 
>              -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
>     <mailto:alan.coopersmith at oracle.com>
>               Oracle Solaris Engineering - https://blogs.oracle.com/alanc
>