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From: dtomm@sparcplug.us.oracle.com (Doug Tomm)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: stupid question about selections
Message-ID: <1990Oct7.021144.18786@oracle.com>
Date: 7 Oct 90 02:11:44 GMT
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Organization: Oracle Corporation
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I'm fuzzy on certain aspects of selections and interclient
communication.  How is it possible to make persistent the data
associated with a property?  Suppose I'm running a client which owns
some selection.  When it terminates, I would like it to bequeath the
data in its (client-defined) properties so that I can get the data
back when I restart the client and acquire ownership of the selection.
Transferring ownership of the selection to the root window doesn't seem
to work.  Any ideas?

I'm running X11R4 with *no* patches, using Xlib only (not my choice).




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