From a8a69006ff70990d83417cc7a5068972d4746eb6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Camilla Berglund Date: Mon, 20 May 2013 14:22:19 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Added paragraph on clipboard manager. --- docs/compat.dox | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/compat.dox b/docs/compat.dox index dc5ce8aa..c781489d 100644 --- a/docs/compat.dox +++ b/docs/compat.dox @@ -42,6 +42,12 @@ protocol, full screen windows may not work properly. GLFW has a fallback code path in case this protocol is unavailable, but every window manager behaves slightly differently in this regard. +GLFW uses the +[clipboard manager protocol](http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/ClipboardManager/) +to push a clipboard string (i.e. selection) owned by a GLFW window about to be +destroyed to the clipboard manager. If there is no running clipboard manager, +the clipboard string will be unavailable once the window has been destroyed. + @section compat_glx GLX extensions The GLX API is the default API used to create OpenGL contexts on Unix-like