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diff --git a/clipboard/clipboards.txt b/clipboard/clipboards.txt index 91c9d06..682467e 100644 --- a/clipboard/clipboards.txt +++ b/clipboard/clipboards.txt @@ -106,4 +106,11 @@ app you did a cut/copy from removes the cut/copied data from the clipboard, since the selection protocol is asynchronous and requires the source app to provide the data at paste time. The solution here would be a standardized protocol for a "clipboard daemon" so that apps -could hand off their data to a daemon when they exit. +could hand off their data to a daemon when they exit. Or +alternatively, you can run an application such as xclipboard which +constantly "harvests" clipboard selections. + +References: + - the ICCCM, obviously + - http://www.xfree86.org/~keithp/talks/selection.ps + - http://www.jwz.org/doc/x-cut-and-paste.html |