Copy/paste stops working after application close - bug?

[patman0623]

Problem is exactly as title describes. After closing an application (e.g., Firefox), the clipboard is destroyed. Is that a bug that I should report at Launchpad? Or is this a "feature"

[JEREMIAHBARLOW]

I am having the same issue with Ubuntu 9.10.

I can Cut or Copy something, and if I close the program or application then the OS seems to forget or looses the Clipboard data.

This sure seems like a bug, Clipboard data needs to stay on the clipboard better. I wonder if there is an advance clip-board tool that would even let you have multiple clipboards at the same time.

Now that would be cool. ... but until then we have to maintain both applications open until you Paste the data to the new application.

SO STUPID for sure.... or in other words ... a BUG in the OS.
:confused:

[luigi_mb]

I am having the same issue with Ubuntu 9.10.

I can Cut or Copy something, and if I close the program or application then the OS seems to forget or looses the Clipboard data.

This sure seems like a bug, Clipboard data needs to stay on the clipboard better. I wonder if there is an advance clip-board tool that would even let you have multiple clipboards at the same time.

Now that would be cool. ... but until then we have to maintain both applications open until you Paste the data to the new application.

SO STUPID for sure.... or in other words ... a BUG in the OS.
:confused:

It is not a bug, it is by design.

/luigi

[SnickerSnack]

Problem is exactly as title describes. After closing an application (e.g., Firefox), the clipboard is destroyed. Is that a bug that I should report at Launchpad? Or is this a "feature"

Do you mean the middle-click buffer, or the Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V buffer?

[Old *ix Geek]

It is not a bug, it is by design.Then it's a stupid design. IMHO, of course. :)

I like to do things FAST. So if I have an app open and I copy something that I'm going to paste into some other app, and I don't need the first app open any more, I CLOSE IT. Boom. Closed. Done. It's just plain stupid to lose what I copied just because I closed the app. ](*,)

[utnubuuser]

This sure seems like a bug, Clipboard data needs to stay on the clipboard better. I wonder if there is an advance clip-board tool that would even let you have multiple clipboards at the same time.


If I might point-out the obvious: There are "advanced" clipboard tools available. Eg: Klipper.
http://sazeit.com/articles/klipper-in-ubuntu-gnome
Install through Synaptic, or with
sudo apt-get install klipper then add it to your start-up apps.
Klipper remembers clipboard history - up to 2048 entries - even after system-shutdown/restart, and enables clipboard-actions.

[patman0623]

I opened this thread many months ago, and I stand by it. If I hit ctrl-c, then close the application, there is no benefit whatsoever (that I can think of) to losing the data when the application is closed. I may well decide to file a bug - I don't think I should need to install some advanced clipboard project on my computer to do a proper paste operation.

[3rdalbum]

It's not exactly a bug, because it works exactly the way that Freedesktop.org specifies that the clipboard should work (maintained by the program). It is a bad design though.

Glipper is a Gnome panel applet (as in, you install it and then right-click on your panel and go to Add To Panel... and choose Clipboard Manager) that works around the bad design and gives you a persistent clipboard, and other features.

[stinkeye]

Parcellite is another popular clipboard manager.

[patman0623]

How would one go about making suggestions for freedesktop.org? At the risk of being impolite, I can't imagine who in the world came up with this hairbrained design.

[ElSlunko]

I don't find it intuitive either, but it did lead me to parcellite which is a great little app.

[Old *ix Geek]

I opened this thread many months ago, and I stand by it. If I hit ctrl-c, then close the application, there is no benefit whatsoever (that I can think of) to losing the data when the application is closed. I may well decide to file a bug - I don't think I should need to install some advanced clipboard project on my computer to do a proper paste operation.Exactly. I really don't get the "logic" behind it at all!

[WakkiTabakki]

Exactly. I really don't get the "logic" behind it at all!

Here is the Launchpad bug report which explains it:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/11334?comments=all

It started in 2004 and has over 200 comments...

/N

[JEREMIAHBARLOW]

I found this glipper and it works good.

In a terminal
Applications > Accessories > Terminal
Code:
sudo apt-get install glipper