Re: [tlug] copy/paste got easier and harder

[Botond Botyanszki <9915104t@example.com>]

On Fri, 7 Feb 2003 16:49:21 +0900 (JST)
Tony Laszlo <laszlo@example.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Botond Botyanszki wrote:
> 
> > This is a feature of the so called "selections". The application has the
> > data that you select and it's not stored in a buffer. When the app
> > exits, your selection is gone.
> > See this: http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/clipboards.txt
> 
> Thanks. 
> Now I see the situation better, 
> but haven't yet read about where one 
> might "fix" it. 
> This wasn't happening with default 
> KDE, using the same clients, hence 
> my surprise. 
> 

I think KDE was the first to address this problem. I don't know much about the
details, because I don't use KDE.
GNOME2 has their own stuff implemented lately:
http://cvs.gnome.org/lxr/source/gcm/doc/about_gcm.html