[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 96109] [chromium] Global Selection test broken on Chromium Linux

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=96109





--- Comment #6 from Allan Sandfeld Jensen <allan.jensen at digia.com>  2012-09-28 02:40:31 PST ---
(In reply to comment #5)
> (In reply to comment #4)
> > An alternative solution is to move the chromium update of the global selection into WebKit. Unless there is a good reason it is outside, I think that would be the best solution, and would mean we could also unify the code updating of the selection buffer.
> 
> We could do this for DRT, but in a real Chromium.  WebKit is in a sandbox that doesn't have direct access to X.  We make an IPC call to the browser process that does sets the global selection clipboard.

My point was to move the code that captures the changes to the selection to WebKit, the part that makes the X calls would still be hidden behind the PasteboardChromium.cpp api.

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