Public bug reported:
KeePass2 is a Mono password manager application. It will place
usernames and passwords on the clipboard at the request of the user or
when certain triggers are met. X has, essentially, three different
clipboards though. The primary & secondary selections, and the
clipboard. Due to a long-standing limitation of Mono, KeePass2 is only
able to access the clipboard yet almost every terminal application in
Linuxdom uses the primary selection in order to paste.
KeePass2, as a workaround, is thus capable of using "xsel" to access the
primary selection, but only if it's installed. If it's not installed,
KeePass2 just silently uses the Mono API which cannot touch the primary
selection, and the user is left to wonder why it doesn't work with any
terminal.
The non-inclusion of xsel as a required dependency for the keepass2
package is, therefore, a limitation to its functionality that reaches
the level of a bug.
** Affects: keepass2 (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: clipboard keepass2 selection xsel
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Keepass2 without xsel does not natively use primary X selection
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