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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.

Re: GNOME Clipboard Daemon - your clipboard will actually work

Submitted by kerrick on Sat, 2004-01-24 16:47.

The problem with clipboard daemons like this are that they steal the clipboard from other applications:

If you run gnumeric without the daemon and hit copy a dashed border appears around the text. With the daemon, if you copy the dash disappears and sometimes pasting will give you an annoying dialog rather than behaving as it typically does.

What daemons should do to behave properly is store the clipboard data and wait for the application to be closed. If the application is closed and the clipboard is lost, then the daemon should put the data back onto the clipboard. This way, the daemon won't break anything.

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