Re: Is it normal that text in the clipboard gets lost?

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On 05/06/13 21:47, Kevin Krammer wrote:
On Wednesday, 2013-06-05, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
On 05/06/13 20:40, Kevin Krammer wrote:
On Wednesday, 2013-06-05, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
There's something that always bugged me a bit with the clipboard.  I
don't know whether it's a bug or intended behavior.  It goes like this:
when I open an application, select some text in it, then copy it to the
clipboard with Ctrl+C, then close the application and finally try to
paste the text from the clipboard into somewhere else, there's nothing
to copy.  At the moment I closed the application I copied the text from,
the clipboard contents die.

This is surprising, since "copying to the clipboard", at least on every
other OS I'm using, really means "copying".  Even if the application the
text came from goes away, the copied text is still in the clipboard.  Is
this a bug?

Sounds like your session is not running klipper.

Hm, indeed.  I didn't even know that this is required.  I had disabled
klipper long time ago, because it puts an icon in the systray, which is
very annoying.  I suppose there's no way to tell it not to do that?

This is configurable in the systray applet.

Yeah, if I do that the systray gets ugly, with that weird triangle, where I never remember what's in it to begin with. It's the whole "do I currently have something running that's hidden in there?" feeling it gives me. Guess I have to live with the scissors icon.

From an architectural point of view, it would be more appropriate for klipper to be just the GUI to the clipboard, while the functionality of keeping the text around after the source app quits should have no representation in the systray. Quitting klipper should only remove the icon, not the core functionality.

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