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From: rees@pisa.citi.umich.edu (Jim Rees)
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Subject: Re: Where is the 68040 (was Re: Re: Installation of X11R4 on apollo)
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Date: 20 Mar 91 16:26:57 GMT
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In article <101020032@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com>, tomg@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com (Thomas J. Gilg) writes:

  > Also, I asked this earlier but didn't get a response.  Is cut and paste
  > between the DM and X still supported ?
  
  I saw your previous question, but didn't know how to respond.   I believe
  not.   If you understand X's cut buffers (old method ?) and selections (new
  method ? ICCCM ?), it might be possible to write a client that could feed
  X buffers into the DM.

I get the impression from this remark that the Corvallis folks aren't very
familiar with the DM (not surprising).  That's too bad, because cross-cut
would be easier and faster to do in the X server (it just has to read/write
a file) than in the DM (it has to open a connection to the X server).

Cross-cut has never really worked right.  In sr10.3 with the share-mode
server, it works until you log out, then never works again until you reboot.
It is apparently implemented completely in the DM, not the X server, so I
would expect it would still work the same way with the new borrow-mode
server.

I have a little X client that sits in the corner of my screen, with buttons
to copy between the X cut buffer and the DM paste buffer.  It's inconvenient
but gets the job done.

Too bad HP decided to dissolve the Apollo X group and move everything to
Corvallis.  This pretty much guarantees that the DM and X will never work
together properly.  Not that Corvallis isn't competent -- they are -- but
just that they don't know or care about the DM.