On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 10:06 PM, Yves-Alexis Perez <cor...@debian.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 2017-03-02 at 18:06 +1300, Chris Tillman wrote: > > Thank you for the response. > > Please leave the bug on CC. > > > > It does work differently for me, if I turn the option off. Then I use > > Ctrl-Shift C to copy, and that copy persists after exiting the program, > so > > it can be pasted later; rather than the text which was copied by just > > highlighting with the option on, which disappears on exit. They seem to > be > > different mechanisms. > > Actually you're right, there's something more fishy. Assuming you're > running > Xfce, you already run a clipboard manager inside xfsettingsd anyway. > > On Linux/Unixes there are two clipboards: the X selection clipboard > (select/middle click), and the GTK clipboard (ctrl-C/ctrl-V or, in > terminals > shift-ctrl-C/shift-ctrl-V). They are usually not persistent (if you > unselect > or quit the application they're gone), thus the need for a clipboard > manager > to handle persistence. > > In your case I have the feeling that when the application is quit, the > selection is actually emptied, and it is then propagated to the GTK > clipboard. > > I'll forward this upstream so they can have a look. > > Regards, > -- > Yves-Alexis Ah, that would make sense. I wasn't aware there were two different ways of copying using the 2 different subsystems. -- Chris Tillman Developer
