selections, meaning that (a) a pterm can leave copied text in the
cut buffer after it terminates so that applications can pick it up
even though it isn't still around to deliver the selection in
person, and (b) pterm can pick up things left in this way by other
apps.
Downside is that all of this only happens in ISO8859-1, because X is
weird like that.
[originally from svn r3409]