Sorry for the separate post, but I found it too late... On Tuesday 02 September 2003 20:51, Yves Goergen wrote: > And a question just of interest: Is there something like a global clipboard > in Linux as we know it from Windows? I mean not only per application, but > shared by the entire system (or maybe user, in this case).
There actually are three of them... http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/clipboards-spec/clipboards.txt The biggest problem: From the document: > A remaining somewhat odd thing about X selections is that exiting the > app you did a cut/copy from removes the cut/copied data from the > clipboard, since the selection protocol is asynchronous and requires > the source app to provide the data at paste time. Data isn't actually copied into the clipboard but merely a reference is kept. The document talks about "cut buffers" which only support ASCII data but which don't seem to have that problem. -- Got Backup? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]