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Re: Cut 'n paste between Epoch and Open Windows

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From: Kristian Jorg TX/DKL
Date: Sun, 25 Aug 1991 16:36
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ebubra@ebu.ericsson.se (Bertil Askelid) writes:

>	Cut 'n paste works fine bothways between an Epoch screen and an xterm, but
>	not between Epoch and an Open Windows shelltool, mailtool, etc.

>	Does anyone know how to fix this, i.e. to make Epoch running under Open
>	Windows work also with the Open Windows clipboard?

I have been digging into the code a little, and the only way to solve it is to
make epoch use the selection_service instead of the ususal X clipboard.

It is not easy to do however.

The *best* solution is of course to let SUN fix the selection_service to use
X clipboards for text. :-)

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