https://whynothugo.nl/tags/programming/Recent content in Programming on WhyNotHugoHugo -- gohugo.ioenFri, 20 Jan 2023 11:32:53 +0100https://whynothugo.nl/journal/2022/10/21/how-the-clipboard-works/Fri, 21 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://whynothugo.nl/journal/2022/10/21/how-the-clipboard-works/Reading how copy-paste works from the Wayland specification is non-trivial unless you understand a lot of how desktop computing works and Wayland internal. It took me quite a while to figure it all out, though once you get there, it seems quite obvious. Here’s my attempt at explaining how it works for mere mortals. Terminology[permalink] Let me clarify that what we usually call “clipboard” is actually called a “selection”. I’ll use the term “clipboard” here anyway to keep this friendly, but keep in mind that it’s not the actual technical term.