Vignatti: X on Wayland [LWN.net]

Vignatti: X on Wayland

Posted Jun 15, 2012 19:22 UTC (Fri) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946)
In reply to: Vignatti: X on Wayland by hummassa
Parent article: Vignatti: X on Wayland

You weren't aware of copy/paste issues in 15 years? That seems unbelievable. Copy something, close the application where you copied it from and then try pasting it or copy something more complex than plain old text and try. If you aren't running something like klipper, you will understand.

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Vignatti: X on Wayland

Posted Jun 15, 2012 19:30 UTC (Fri) by hummassa (subscriber, #307) [Link]

> If you aren't running something like klipper, you will understand.

So, NOW I know why I haven't seen any problems. I use kde (and klipper) since before the the turn of the century. And anyway, I usually cut and paste between open apps. I didn't even *know* it was supposed to work otherwise... ;-)

Vignatti: X on Wayland

Posted Jun 15, 2012 20:32 UTC (Fri) by nybble41 (subscriber, #55106) [Link]

It's not even like Windows works any differently; it just has something like Klipper as a standard background process. If Klipper didn't have a tray icon (necessary to provide features not available in Windows, like clipboard history) you wouldn't even be able to tell the difference.

Vignatti: X on Wayland

Posted Jun 15, 2012 21:16 UTC (Fri) by cortana (subscriber, #24596) [Link]

And some part of GNOME or GTK+ has done a similar job (for at least text selections) for several years, as I'm perfectly able to paste text once I close the gedit instance from which it was copied. The fact that I don't know where this component may be found is a testament to its reliability, as if I had filed a bug on it I'd have tried to find out. :_)

Vignatti: X on Wayland

Posted Jun 16, 2012 9:51 UTC (Sat) by hongli (guest, #75254) [Link]

Well actually, a number of years ago I suddenly came to the realization that copy-paste worked as intended, after suddenly remembering that in the past I had to be careful not closing the application from which I copied. I was confused. Back in the days I ran all kinds of clipboard managers; I even wrote one myself. And now, since Ubuntu >= 8.10 or something, I don't see any indication of a clipboard manager yet everything worked as expected. How can that be? I Googled, but found nothing. I read the source, but couldn't find the location of the clipboard manager within 10 minutes so I gave up and just accepted that things Just Work(tm) now.

Vignatti: X on Wayland

Posted Jun 18, 2012 10:15 UTC (Mon) by jku (subscriber, #42379) [Link]

I hope you never actually need the information, but in GNOME (and Ubuntu) clipboard and many other useful little things are handled by g-s-d: http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-settings-daemon/tree/pl...