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The original Win32 clipboard API is widely regarded as terrible, since it relies on clients co-operatively managing the clipboard viewer chain, and a single buggy client can break it for all other clients. The last Windows version only supporting that API was Windows XP (5.1), EOLed in 2014. (This requires MinGW-w64 w32api 6.0.0 or later for Add/RemoveClipboardListener correctly exported by the x86_64 user32 implib)
X Server
The X server accepts requests from client applications to create windows, which are (normally rectangular) "virtual screens" that the client program can draw into.
Windows are then composed on the actual screen by the X server (or by a separate composite manager) as directed by the window manager, which usually communicates with the user via graphical controls such as buttons and draggable titlebars and borders.
For a comprehensive overview of X Server and X Window System, consult the following article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_server
All questions regarding this software should be directed at the Xorg mailing list:
https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
The master development code repository can be found at:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver
For patch submission instructions, see:
https://www.x.org/wiki/Development/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
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