From c69a55923995c931646b5d977980efec23af5712 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Ryan C. Gordon" <icculus@icculus.org>
Date: Tue, 26 May 2015 21:29:45 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] X11: generate clipboard update events (thanks, "chw"!).

Partially fixes Bugzilla #2266.
---
 src/video/x11/SDL_x11events.c | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/video/x11/SDL_x11events.c b/src/video/x11/SDL_x11events.c
index e6172b66d1bef..6ef4fa07c67bf 100644
--- a/src/video/x11/SDL_x11events.c
+++ b/src/video/x11/SDL_x11events.c
@@ -1219,6 +1219,16 @@ X11_DispatchEvent(_THIS)
         }
         break;
 
+    case SelectionClear: {
+            Atom XA_CLIPBOARD = X11_XInternAtom(display, "CLIPBOARD", 0);
+
+            if (xevent.xselectionclear.selection == XA_PRIMARY ||
+                (XA_CLIPBOARD != None && xevent.xselectionclear.selection == XA_CLIPBOARD)) {
+                SDL_SendClipboardUpdate();
+            }
+        }
+        break;
+
     default:{
 #ifdef DEBUG_XEVENTS
             printf("window %p: Unhandled event %d\n", data, xevent.type);