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Copy+paste has never been bloat

Copy+paste has never been bloat

Posted Feb 17, 2005 18:47 UTC (Thu) by jreiser (subscriber, #11027)
In reply to: This is a preemptive counterpost by whitemice
Parent article: The Lightweight experience:A comparison of Window Managers (Linux Times.Net)

all that 'bloat' that allows things like cut-n-paste to actually work

Cut/copy/paste works just fine using the X11 server directly, without any bloat at all. I've put it in applications whose entire size is 52KB and use only libX11 and libc.


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