Dimitrie O. Paun wrote:
... I think we're better off simply copying to clipboard on select (using the Win32 API). All consoles in X behave this way ...
Really? Xterm and apps from that era don't touch clipboard, I think. This matters to me, since I use Xterm as my day-to-day console.
Ideally, Wine apps would put stuff in the X select buffer when they selected, and in X's clipboard when they "copy" or "cut". If that's hard (and I suspect it is), putting stuff in both places only on "copy" or "cut" is a fine compromise.
- Dan