Cut-and-Paste Buffer Disappearing

[Mike Massonnet]

Hi Rich,

2010/10/22 Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com>:
>  I just upgraded my server/workstation to Slackware-13.0 with Xfce-4.6.1.
> After X has been running a while the mouse cut-and-paste buffer quits. I
> need to kill X and restart it to regain this capability. Happened once
> yesterday and twice (so far) today. This has not happened before and I've
> been running xfce since 1997 or so.
>
>  Because I use this copying ability hundreds of times each day I need to
> find the source of the problem and fix it. Your help will is greatly
> appreciated.

Xorg always behaved the same with respect to the clipboard. Once the
text selected from one application is closed, the text selection is
lost as well. You need to run a clipboard manager if you wish to keep
your text selections intact after closing applications. This counts
for both mouse selections and manual text copies (ctrl+c).

You can try out xfce4-clipman-plugin that comes with such a manager.

> Thanks,
>
> Rich

Kind Regards
-- 
Mike