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-               [email protected]
         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 <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> 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- [email protected]
    <mailto:[email protected]>
              Oracle Solaris Engineering - https://blogs.oracle.com/alanc




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