Cut-and-Paste Buffer Disappearing

[Al Bogner]

Am Sa, 23 Okt 2010 07:39:26 CEST schrieb Rich Shepard:

> On Sat, 23 Oct 2010, Mike Massonnet wrote:
> 
> > 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).
> 
>    The application is _not_ closed. When I press the middle button
> (actually, both left and right simultaneously) I get a white line
> flashing on the console, but that's it. When I go back to the
> original window the selected text is still highlighted.
> 
>    I suppose that I did not explain clearly enough.

I know this problem too. Sometimes it drives me crazy. Most time I can
copy with ^C ^V, but not always.

Al