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Custom selections (in respect to ICCCM 2.6.1)
Currently, xsel only allows to copy to and paste from the three standard selections. However, ICCCM 2.6.1 mentions that more selections can exist:
There can be an arbitrary number of selections, each named by an atom. To conform with the inter-client conventions, however, clients need deal with only these three selections:
PRIMARY SECONDARY CLIPBOARD
Other selections may be used freely for private communication among related groups of clients.
(https://tronche.com/gui/x/icccm/sec-2.html#s-2.6.1)
I wish for xsel to support selections of custom names.
This blog post might help a bit: https://www.uninformativ.de/blog/postings/2017-04-02/0/POSTING-en.html