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).
 
 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.
-

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 \cw{xcopy} is free software, distributed under the MIT licence. Type