On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 6:38 PM, Adam Williamson awilliam@redhat.com wrote:
On Sun, 2009-05-03 at 01:51 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote:
Adrin Jalali wrote:
I remember a copy paste problem which was (I think at least) solved, but I can see it again using rawhide. When you copy something in an application, by the time you close that application it's being erased from the clipboard. So you should keep the source application open till you paste that somewhere else.
Is it supposed to be normal behavior?
This is just how the X11 clipboard works. The X11 clipboard contents are stored within the application "owning" the clipboard, if you close it, poof, there goes the clipboard. You need to run a clipboard manager such as Klipper, Glipper etc., which fixes this by taking ownership of the clipboard automatically.
Adrin is right, though - GNOME's had a built-in clipboard manager for several releases now, so this works with most applications transparently.
However, it still seems to be working for me, with today's Rawhide. I just tested by copying something from gedit, closing gedit, and then pasting it into a gnome-terminal. Worked OK.
I can't find any references for this, though (I learned about it via Planet GNOME eons ago), so I wouldn't know how to tell what's gone wrong for Adrin.
This only works for the Ctrl+C / Ctrl+V way. If you select a text and try to paste using the middle mouse button it only works when the source app is open.