Gnome/X11 clipboard.

[rizzix]

Well I find this very annoying. So any help would be appreciated.

The way the clipboard currently works is like this: You can copy/paste data from one app to another so long as both the apps are open at the same time.

Let say I find something interesting while browsing the web. So I copy that text and now I quit by browser, open another application paste it there. Poof! Nothing! As though there is nothing in my clipboard.

Try the same thing but now quitting the browser only after you finished pasting the data. It works.

Is there any way to fix this? hmm =/.

[Mazer]

That used to piss me off to no end. Now with Gnome 2.12 they've fixed it and just by habit I'll always keep the window open until I've pasted. I don't know if there are third party fixes for it, so I hope upgrading Gnome is an option.

[rizzix]

Well, I'm running GNOME 2.12.2

[Mazer]

I'm all out of ideas. Is there a small chance that you're only imagining this problem?

[Naveg]

code:

wget -c http://frankandjacq.com/ubuntuguide/gnome-clipboard-daemon-1.0.bin.tar.bz2 sudo tar jxvf gnome-clipboard-daemon-1.0.bin.tar.bz2 -C /usr/bin/ sudo chown root:root /usr/bin/gnome-clipboard-daemon sudo chmod 755 /usr/bin/gnome-clipboard-daemon sudo gnome-clipboard-daemon &

Then add it to your startup programs list under sessions.

[rizzix]

Oh btw thx, but I found something better: http://lepton.fr/tools/autocutsel/

[rizzix]

Coutsos wrote:

I'm all out of ideas. Is there a small chance that you're only imagining this problem?

Actually, you are right. It works, but only when I'm copying from some gnome app to firefox.. the other way around it does not work.. and apparently.. autocutsel does not solve that problem. I believe this has something to do with the way firefox uses the clipboard.