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From: cflatter@ZIA.AOC.NRAO.EDU (Chris Flatters)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: A tirade about inefficient software & systems
Message-ID: <9011010202.AA05732@zia.aoc.nrao.edu>
Date: 1 Nov 90 02:02:28 GMT
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>> The only serious application I can think of that does anything like this is
>> xclipboard which appears to continuously poll the server to get the current
>> value of the CLIPBOARD selection.
>
>If it does so, it is broken.  The X protocol provides plenty of mechanism for
>eliminating almost all forms of polling; the selection mechanism which
>xclipboard uses is one such example.


Sorry. I goofed.  For some reason I had the (faulty) idea that xclipboard
consumed any spare CPU time left lying around.

			Chris