> Except its no where near as smooth or universal as in Windows. In Linux, you have to worry about KDE programs vs GNOME programs having different clipboards, f

> Except its no where near as smooth or universal as in Windows. In Linux, you have to worry about KDE programs vs GNOME programs having different clipboards, for example. I am no sure where you get this idea. The clipboard is an X11 shared resource and any program taking control of it removes what any other had on it before. > Its also why compatible suites of programs (ie: Adobe) can be so useful when those custom formats come into play. Adobe can copy/paste layers from Photoshop and send them over to other programs. If the photoshop layer isn't understood, it seems to become a Bitmap, which works when I'm on a VBulletin forum over in Firefox land. The same exists on X11, programs can define custom metadata and define a hierarchy of different metadata and associated data on the clipboard and any application can decide for itself which formats it understands and which it does not. I've personally built software that puts images on clipboards, and falls back with uris to that image if direct images not be supported by whatever reads it.