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Why do we have 3 types of X-selections in LINUX?

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says: Why do we have 3 types of X-Selections? What are their purposes?

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-selection     specify which X selection to use, options are 
                "primary" to use XA_PRIMARY (default), "secondary" 
                for…

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Historical, partly. I'm not sure "secondary" is used for anything at all anymore. "clipboard" is what is used by most Ctrl+X/C/V; it is the clipboard you put things into on purpose. "primary" is what holds whatever text is currently selected; it is …

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