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Bug 470503 - Loosing "the copy-paste buffer" if the window from which you've copied something is closed
Loosing "the copy-paste buffer" if the window from which you've copied someth...
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 121590
Product: metacity
Classification: Other
Component: general
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal minor
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Assigned To: Metacity maintainers list
Metacity maintainers list
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2007-08-26 19:37 UTC by Narf
Modified: 2007-10-29 09:53 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.17/2.18


Description Narf 2007-08-26 19:37:11 UTC 
Whatever is copied from no matter what application/window should stay in the memory. It's quite annoying when you open a file with gedit(for example) just to copy some text from it, you mark it, you press ctrl+c and then close gedit. Then you want to paste it in gnome-terminal(another example) and you can't.

Other information:
It happens with *every* separate program or even single window within a program.
Comment 1 Elijah Newren 2007-08-26 21:01:30 UTC 
I thought someone solved this a couple years ago with some new Xorg spec extensions and such (for some reason Emmanuele Bassi's name comes to mind, but I'm not sure if he was one of the responsible persons on the gtk side or not).  Maybe I understood incorrectly and it was just work in progress.

Anyway, it would be nice if someone could look this up and mark this as a dupe of whatever relevant bug.  This definitely isn't a metacity bug and might outside of gnome, but I don't have the time to look it up at the moment.
Comment 2 Thomas Thurman 2007-10-28 20:45:36 UTC 
This looks like a dupe of bug 121590, but that bug claims that it's obsolete because of a patch on some other bug that it doesn't name (not very helpfully). These may also be relevant:

http://members.chello.nl/~h.lai/gnome-clipboard-daemon/
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2003-September/msg00193.html

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 121590 ***
Comment 3 Murray Cumming 2007-10-29 09:53:44 UTC 
These bugs are now application-specific, because applications must opt-in with gtk_clipboard_set_can_store().  If an application doesn't do this then a bug should be filed against that application.