Set clipboard contents when selecting text — Xorg implicit/passive clipboard interaction

[benthor]

I'm a long time Xorg user and I prefer to interact with my clipboard passively/implicitly by simply selecting text and middle-mouse-buttoning it somewhere else. I often interact with browser URL bars like this, but Lagrange only appears to copy selected text to clipboard after you hit Ctrl+C. Pasting using the MMB appears to work decently enough though.

[skyjake]

This sounds like the same issue as #162. Do you agree?

[benthor]

#162 is indeed related. From an admittedly selfish perspective, I feel that my particular issue might be resolved by simply calling SDL_SetClipboardText() once a selection is made, without waiting for a keyboard trigger. This would cause the selection to end up in the primary clipboard and represent standard Xorg convention. Dealing with Ctrl+C in the way that people seem to expect appears to be more work.

[benthor]

Related discussion about X clipboards

[skyjake]

issue might be resolved by simply calling SDL_SetClipboardText() once a selection is made

That could work some of the time / for some people, but I think that it's better to follow the convention fully, as suggested in #162.

Closing as duplicate of #162.