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> I've found that clipboard is wiped on application exit in X11 when no clipboard manager is running. I've never encountered this behavior in any DE before mov

> I've found that clipboard is wiped on application exit in X11 when no clipboard manager is running. I've never encountered this behavior in any DE before moving to KDE5 and even with KDE5. > KDE's one is Klipper, and I tend to set it such that it keeps and history or 50 items. Although I admit clipboard history can be useful and even I used to have a task made easier with it, now I really don't want a clipboard manager to keep history. > by the way, the absence of Copy paste using select+middle clic when using Wayland It doesn't work as it is meant to, reliably with all the apps even with X11 with KDE5.

jraph 8y ago
I think I encounter this behavior outside of big desktop managers, when using an openbox session for instance. For clipboard history, I understand that you don't want everything saved. I think most clipboard managers allow you to delete entries. (But you have to think about it) >> by the way, the absence of Copy paste using select+middle clic when using Wayland > It doesn't work as it is meant to, reliably with all the apps even with X11 with KDE5. I'm curious, in which situation it does not work correctly?
- qwerty456127 8y ago
  > I'm curious, in which situation it does not work correctly? I can't remember particular cases already but sometimes middle mouse click won't paste anything or will paste old clipboard content and only Ctrl+V works the meant way. It seems this happens either because Ctrl+C/V and MMB actually use 2 independent clipboards that are not always synchronized correctly or because some UI toolkits have some quirks with this part.
  - jraph 8y ago
    Yes, I actually rely on mouse paste and Ctrl+V being independent clipboards (though usually clipboard managers offer to synchronize them, which I've never tried, so I can't say if it works flawlessly, and I can imagine glitches here). Edit: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/139191/whats-the-difference-between-primary-selection-and-clipboard-buffer https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/139191/whats-the-di...

jraph 8y ago

I think I encounter this behavior outside of big desktop managers, when using an openbox session for instance. For clipboard history, I understand that you don't want everything saved. I think most clipboard managers allow you to delete entries. (But you have to think about it) >> by the way, the absence of Copy paste using select+middle clic when using Wayland > It doesn't work as it is meant to, reliably with all the apps even with X11 with KDE5. I'm curious, in which situation it does not work correctly?

qwerty456127 8y ago
> I'm curious, in which situation it does not work correctly? I can't remember particular cases already but sometimes middle mouse click won't paste anything or will paste old clipboard content and only Ctrl+V works the meant way. It seems this happens either because Ctrl+C/V and MMB actually use 2 independent clipboards that are not always synchronized correctly or because some UI toolkits have some quirks with this part.
- jraph 8y ago
  Yes, I actually rely on mouse paste and Ctrl+V being independent clipboards (though usually clipboard managers offer to synchronize them, which I've never tried, so I can't say if it works flawlessly, and I can imagine glitches here). Edit: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/139191/whats-the-difference-between-primary-selection-and-clipboard-buffer https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/139191/whats-the-di...