On Wed, 8 Mar 2017, ToddAndMargo wrote: > Hi All, > > Looking at "man XStoreBuffer XFetchBuffer XRotateBuffers", > which clipboard is the ctrl-c/v clipboard ("clipboard") > and which is the mouse over and center click clipboard > ("primary")? Sorry, it seems that those routines are obsolete hangovers from X10 ! https://www.jwz.org/doc/x-cut-and-paste.html seems to be particularly clear; there are also more formal references like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_selection https://tronche.com/gui/x/xlib/utilities/using-cut-buffers.html https://tronche.com/gui/x/xlib/window-information/selection.html Sorry I pointed you in the wrong direction to start with. -- Andrew C Aitchison