Re: X11 Selections

[Harold L Hunt II <huntharo at msu dot edu>]

Harold L Hunt II wrote:
> Kensuke Matsuzaki wrote:
>
> > Alexander,
> >
> >
> > > > and we still need Xlib to convert the selection into the desired 
> > > > format.
> > >
> > >
> > > Which conversions are these? Can they be done by other libraries or 
> > > by using
> > > connection idependent code from libX11 (which could be staticly linked)
> >
> >
> >
> > Conversion text encoding between compound text, UTF-8, Unicode and
> > locale encoding. lib/X11/lc*.c contain those code. Maybe some part of
> > those conversion can be done by iconv. But as far as I know, gnu
> > libiconv doesn't supprot compound text.
>
>
> I think a lot of those functions might be connection independent.  I was 
> looking at them last night and they do a lot of processing within Xlib, 
> but they don't make calls to the server.  Thus, they should not need a 
> connection.

I lied, these functions make use of XInternAtom, which requires a 
display connection.  However, there may be various ways of hacking this. 
 For example, we could pre-register any used atoms when our X Server 
starts up and use our pre-defined (or at least accessible without a 
client connection) atom values in place of a lookup via XInternAtom.

I have not looked further into the problem yet.

Harold