Aha! Reading the ICCCM more closely, the return value for the

TIMESTAMP property is required to be the _same_ timestamp passed to
XSetSelectionOwner. That means we can set it to CurrentTime with a
clear conscience.

git-svn-id: svn://svn.tartarus.org/sgt/utils@8366 cda61777-01e9-0310-a592-d414129be87e

diff --git a/xcopy/xcopy.but b/xcopy/xcopy.but
index 59b5866..8d79e48 100644 (file)
--- a/xcopy/xcopy.but
+++ b/xcopy/xcopy.but
@@ -135,9 +135,6 @@ currently supported. There are Xlib functions to do it, although
 they don't appear to work very well (missing out many characters
 which they could have converted).
 
-The selection timestamps output by \cw{xcopy} in write mode are
-always zero, which is not ideal.
-
 \U LICENCE
 
 \cw{xcopy} is free software, distributed under the MIT licence. Type