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Just wondering, is clipboard an "unsupported hack" or "feature needed for an uncommon setup"? What about video?

• simcop2387 10y ago
  This isn't clipboards in general, but a clipboard manager. This is a program that keeps a history of things in your clipboard so you can go back if you accidentally copied something, or sync things between computers even (it's really nice when it works among VMs, copy on one, paste on the other).
  • pizza234 10y ago
    Clipboard managers are needed at least on some desktop environments to make copy/paste functional between applications. On my XFCE 4.12, with clipboard managers, if I copy from, say, Firefox, then close it, the content of the clipboard disappears. If it's the same with Wayland, then having a functional clipboard manager is a big deal (at least, as much as such copy/paste operations are).
    • shock 10y ago
      It's not the same in Wayland. You can quit the app and the clipboard content will remain.
    • rvern 10y ago
      The GPaste clipboard manager works with Wayland.
• AsyncAwait 10y ago
  Clipboard does work, but I wanted to point out that all of these things are specific to the Wayland session, which is very new, you can still switch to Xorg in GDM and everything will work as expected.
• Gracana 10y ago
  Clipboard managers.