X Window selection
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x-window-selection-294-15034389
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X Window selection
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Selections, cut buffers, and drag-and-drop are the mechanisms used in the X Window System to allow a user to transfer data from one window to another. Selections and cut buffer are typically used when a user selects text or some other data in a window and pastes in another one. Drag-and-drop is used when a user selects something in a window, then clicks on the selection and drags it into another window. Since the two windows may be handled by two different applications, these mechanisms require
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2024-02-23T09:23:37Z
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