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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 smoke on Sun, 2004-01-25 06:57.

in my oppinion a "display server" should offer some ways to handle a copy buffer in some sane way. when you make a "display server" without all this youre pretty grounded on the usability side of things. because when such a thing doesnt exist, the described happens - why should every application/toolkit developer REINVENT THE WHEEL? the result is obvious, a myriad ways to achieve the same thing and a myriad of oddities when working with different applications/toolkits for the user.

the problem with X is and was that from its concept and featureset alone it seemed pretty stuck in concepts of the 1980's.

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