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Subject: Re: What is the XA_SECONDARY clipboard?
From: Charles Lindsey
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc, comp.os.linux.x
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2017 16:23 UTC
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On Wed, 08 Mar 2017 22:36:41 +0000, Eli the Bearded wrote:

> In comp.os.linux.misc, T <T@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>
> I added a crosspost to comp.os.linux.x. I had also been hoping someone
> would answer before me, but...
>
>> From "man xclip" I see that I have three clipboards:
> ...
>> "secondary" or XA_SECONDARY
>>
>> I am very familiar with the first two. What is XA_SECONDARY?
>> And how do I use it?

see http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~chl/secondary-selection.html

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Subject: Re: What is the XA_SECONDARY clipboard?
From: Eli the Bearded
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Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2017 20:07 UTC
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Subject: Re: What is the XA_SECONDARY clipboard?
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In comp.os.linux.x, Charles Lindsey <chl@clerew.man.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Wed, 08 Mar 2017 22:36:41 +0000, Eli the Bearded wrote:
>> I added a crosspost to comp.os.linux.x. I had also been hoping someone
>> would answer before me, but...
> see http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~chl/secondary-selection.html

Much more detail. But:

} The convention that Ctrl-c, Ctrl-v and Ctrl-x are used for Copy, Paste and
} Cut comes from Microsoft,

That exact key combo, yes, but Command-{C,V,X} for Copy, Paste, and Cut
(and Command-Z for undo), I think originates in Macintosh. As IBM style
keyboards lacked Command, a different modifier was needed. Wikipedia,
for whatever value it has citable authority, agrees.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cut,_copy,_and_paste

One other peice of feeback: put some dates in the page, so that future
readers will have some idea how old your stuff is.

Elijah
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Subject	Author
Re: What is the XA_SECONDARY clipboard?	Charles Lindsey
Re: What is the XA_SECONDARY clipboard?	Eli the Bearded