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GNOME Clipboard Daemon - your clipboard will actually work

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

A simple question

Submitted by Anonymous George on Sat, 2004-01-24 15:35.

Excuse me, but why create a daemon instead of fixing X itself?

Adding daemons on top of other ones and bloating the Unix environments, is hardly the way to go. To really feel that DEs on Unix are integrated, I need to see these patches go to X itself, not to Gnome or KDE.

The culprit here is X, and that's what it should have being fixed, not a yet another hack on top of other hacks. Sorry, but this is one of the problems in Linux, no one is taking into account the big picture. Instead of doing ENGINEERING, many people do small-time programming. Things like that is what creates the bloat, the complexity and the unessesary slowness.

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