Clip board problems

[Todd and Margo Chester]

Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
> Todd and Margo Chester wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>>    I am using Cent OS 5.1 and XFce 4.4.2
>>
>>    I love to copy and paste from program to program.
>>
>> Problem:  if I copy in one program and then close
>> the program, I loose the text I sent to the clip board.
>> I have to reopen the first program, recopy to the
>> clipboard, leave the original program open, paste
>> to the second program, then close the first.
>>
>>    It is, how to put it, "annoying", although
>> not approaching "pain in the neck".
>>
>>    Is this an XFce thing or a Linux thing?
> 
> Neither.  It's a normal X11 thing.  Try xfce4-clipman-plugin.
> 
> 	-brian
>

Thank you!

Any problems with Virtual Box?

-T

Oh Crap.  Clipman is not in YUM:

#yum install xfce4-clipman-plugin
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up Install Process
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Excluding Packages in global exclude list
Finished
Parsing package install arguments
Nothing to do