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GNOME Clipboard Daemon - your clipboard will actually work

Submitted by FooBarWidget on Sat, 2004-01-24 08:49. FreeDesktop.org

Normally, when you copy something in an X application and you close it, the content of the clipboard is lost. This is probably one of the biggest reasons why people keep saying that copy & paste in Linux "doesn't work".

GNOME Clipboard Daemon is a program that keeps the content of your X clipboard in memory, so the clipboard won' get lost even after you close the application you copied from. It's a daemon - it has no GUI. You start it and it'll run in the background and Just Work(tm).Click here for more information, source & binaries.

Re: GNOME Clipboard Daemon - your clipboard will actually work

Submitted by Anonymous George on Fri, 2004-01-30 08:57.

I read the discussion in the mailing list, when you tried to submit your patch.

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2003-September/msg00193.html

I can't believe that they would not accept it, or at least the daemon version, as temporary solution to a major annoyance of using X (losing the clipboard contents when the app exits).

What will proabably happen is some new system to provide a comprehensive solution to the problem..... that will be half implemented. And maybe get completed in some far off version of GNOME.

Sure it might not comply to some ICCCM conventions and is not be the ultimate solution, for copy & pasting using under X windows. But it does the job.

Thanks for this workaround. It works well.

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