Re: NSPasteboard on X, what to do?

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On Wednesday, January 9, 2002, at 06:16 PM, Pascal Bourguignon wrote:

> It's a little more complicated than that.

<snip>

Sorry to sound dismissive, but I've spent a lot of time on this 
discussion and
I'm not going to devote any more to it.

Your statements of X terminology contradict what I've just looked up in 
the
OReilly books (though you may well be right) so any discussion about X 
would
probably involve more confusion.

More importantly, what started as essentially a question of whether the 
OpenStep
pasteboard server was associated with a screen or a computer (nothing 
whatsoever
to do with X) seems to have become yet another pointless 'lets replace 
OpenStep
with X' thread.

The answer to the original question is that the pasteboard server is 
associated
with the workstation on which an app is being displayed (though need not 
necessarily
run on that workstation).  A workstation corresponds closely to what the 
Xlib programming
manual calls a 'display', but *not* to what you say is a display in X 
terminology.

Applications should really (ie this is what NeXTstep did) use a 
command-line
argument to determine which host they display on (and hence where the 
pasteboard
should be), but this is not yet implemented in GNUstep.