On 2017-06-26 19:18, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Sometimes the clipboard contents even disappear if you exit the > application you copied from. Start Google Chrome. Select the URL bar. > Press Ctrl+C. Quit Google Chrome. Try Ctrl+V somewhere. It's gone. The > clipboard content you just copied from Chrome is gone.
I think this is a feature, for privacy reasons. pass (the password manager) does the same with passwords it puts into the clipboard. > It's a good old huge big effing mess, as usual. The year of the Linux > desktop will probably be the one where the freakin' clipboard actually > works, because we still can't get it right in 2017. This I agree with ;-) One program that gets it 90% right is emacs. So, I often end up pasting into the emacs scratch buffer and re-copying from there, as a workaround. -- Please *no* private Cc: on mailing lists and newsgroups Personal signed mail: please _encrypt_ and sign Don't clear-text sign: http://primate.net/~itz/blog/the-problem-with-gpg-signatures.html
