Documentation for using the system clipboard ?

[jodocus]

On Wed, 05 Mar 2003 10:11:09 +0100, Eric Brunel wrote:


> On
> XWindows, the clipboard just holds a reference to a text managed by your
> application (sort of...), so the copied text won't be available anymore
> if your application is closed.

Are you really sure about this? I have never noticed any text vanishing
from the X selection after closing an application. Also, I can't recall
ever reading about that in any discussion about how selections should be
implemented in X.

R.