GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 72451
ICCCM 2.0 manager selection
Last modified: 2011-01-06 17:34:28 UTC
ICCCM 2.0 requires the window manager to manage a selection WM_Sn, where n is the number of a screen managed. FVWM and xclipboard contain example code for selection management. However, I have not detected the required client message from xclipboard startup and have not tested FVWM. Required targets for WM_Sn: Target Type Data --------------------------------------------------------------------- MULTIPLE ATOM_PAIR (see section 2.6.2) TARGETS ATOM[] List of targets supported TIMESTAMP INTEGER Server time used to acquire WM_Sn ownership VERSION INTEGER[2] {2, 0}
the current way works fine, this is just a waste of time afaik.. (but if someone else wants to do it, I see no harm..)
The value of this is so that people can switch window managers cleanly ("sawfish --replace; gnome-session-save", vs. "killall metacity; sleep 3; sawfish; gnome-session-save") https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=68652
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 103304 ***
Oops, I did not mean to do that.
-> 3.0
This has been added in 1.8 cycle, curtesy of Timo Korvola.