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    [xwl] Generic X selections translation mechanism with Clipboard support · 6e08fb2f
    Roman Gilg authored
    Summary:
    In this patch an infrastructure is created to represent generic X selections
    in a Wayland session and use them for data transfers between Xwayland windows
    and Wayland native clients.
    
    The central manager is the DataBridge class, in which Selection objects can be
    created. This is hard-coded and such a Selection object persists until the end
    of the session, so no arbitrary selections can be created on the fly. For now
    the X Clipboard selection is supported, whose corresponding mechanism in the
    Wayland protocol is just called Selection.
    
    A Selection object listens for selection owner changes on the X side and for
    similar events into the Wayland server interfaces. If a data provider is
    available a selection source object is created by the Selection object. In case
    data is requested on the other side, a data transfer is initialized by creating
    a Transfer object. A Selection keeps track of all transfers and makes sure that
    they are destroyed when they are finished or in case they idle because of
    misbehaving clients.
    
    The Clipboard class translates the X Clipboard via a proxy window. Selection
    changes on the Wayland side are listened to through a new signal on the active
    KWayland seat interface.
    
    The previously used X clipboard syncer helper is disabled. The clipboard sync
    autotest is changed to the new mechanism.
    
    BUG: 394765
    BUG: 395313
    
    Test Plan: Manually and clipboard sync autotest.
    
    Reviewers: #kwin
    
    Subscribers: zzag, graesslin, kwin
    
    Tags: #kwin
    
    Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D15061
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