[Bug 11334] Re: MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste

2011-03-07 Thread Slated
pyrates: "use to the method that windows and mac os x do". Tralalalala: "open source idiot". Endolith: "Just switch to a working OS like Windows 7". Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the Ubuntu "community". I seem to be in the wrong place. I came here looking for a GNU/Linux distro (am I allowed t

[Bug 11334] Re: MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste

2011-03-04 Thread Slated
X11 was not designed to have a persistent clipboard, deferring this functionality to elsewhere - typically the window manager, or some utility running thereon. X11 was designed to be modular, like everything else in *NIX, and AFAIAC this is a good thing. Consider the issues of resource overheads