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From: Stuart.Marks@Eng.Sun.COM (Stuart Marks)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look
Subject: Re: olwm/OpenWindows 2.0 and xterm
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Date: 26 Jun 91 17:49:32 GMT
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    It has a lot to do with the window manager.  I'm unaware of any other
    window manager other than olwm that considers a M1 click on the
    window decorations to be a reason to clear the clipboard.  

Clarification on two counts:  olwm doesn't clear the clipboard.  It
acquires ownership of the primary selection (not the clipboard).  Further,
the selection isn't cleared; there really is a selection, and its contents
are windows.  Unfortunately, there are bugs in the OpenWindows V2 olwm
that prevent it from responding to interesting selection request targets.
This will be fixed.

							       Given
    that the window you are moving to is highly unlike to be visible I
    find this to be an incredible annoyance (and one of the reasons I
    don't use olwm anymore).

Right ... none of this says that olwm's selection behavior isn't annoying.
Personally, I use olwm, but I use the L5 (Front) key almost exclusively to
do my window restacking.

s'marks

Stuart W. Marks			ARPA: smarks@eng.sun.com
Windows & Graphics Software	UUCP: sun!smarks
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