johannes

the [change introducing this functionality into xfwm4](https://git.xfce.org/xfce/xfwm4/commit/?h=xfce-4.4&id=4ed599c097aad946513f46b670b966dce2c1c0e2) mentions ICCCM2 compliance. roughly that seems to say that * window managers should acquire the `WM_S` selection ([sec. 4.3](https://tronche.com/gui/x/icccm/sec-4.html#s-4.3)) * the protocol around...

i am not looking into this actively anymore, since for my use-case (testing if things work in another WM quickly/doing one or two things that work better with openbox) is...

i briefly looked into this when preparing for the API invariants goal of my masters' thesis (which was eventually replaced with another goal), and the core problem seems to be...

so a sample interaction would look roughly like this for IMAP NOTIFY: ``` 0001 OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE SORT SORT=DISPLAY THREAD=REFERENCES THREAD=REFS THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT MULTIAPPEND URL-PARTIAL...

afterthought: with some (minor?) api change and test breakage i think this specific instance could also be solved by making `string(s)` do something roughly like (not actual code, just illustration)...

note: i think this technique can be used in other places as well, just thought i'd open one issue where there could be discussion about the general opinion on this...

Note: i think this would build for this PR already, but you need to enable it in project settings somewhere.