Clipboard support on Linux: A few hiccups.

[zsbzsb]

Don't forget that Aster also said that he is willing to carry on his PR if you guys can manage to agree on something. So don't be jumping the gun and maybe give him a chance to update the PR.

I can rewrite it and/or fix any issues with it if someone comes up with a viable API.

[Nexus]

Jumping the gun? Nobody wrote any code for 3/4 of a year... The API we're talking about has been suggested last autumn already, and Aster strongly disliked it, which is why I thought he wouldn't be willing to implement it.

Working further on the same PR would of course not mean throwing away Aster's code, his commits and contributions could still remain as a foundation. I'm also okay with him continuing, but I don't want to let a few more months pass before anything happens. Now I have at least a bit of time to work on such things

Actually: since he seems to have investigated the X11 semantics to a great detail, it would make sense if he continued the Linux implementation he hasn't been in the forum for a while, can anybody contact him?

[Juhani]

I'm eager to see how ye are going to implement this with no hidden window && no hidden thread.

[zsbzsb]

he hasn't been in the forum for a while, can anybody contact him?

I notified him on an IRC channel that he should read the new updates on this thread, so... 

[Nexus]

I'm eager to see how ye are going to implement this with no hidden window && no hidden thread.

That's not possible. If the user has no window, we have to create (a hidden) one of course.

This whole "reuse user's windows" story is only an optimization. It needn't be part of the first version... We should rather focus on getting the basic functionality running.