copy paste problem.

[drago01]

On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 6:38 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam at 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.