Thanks for the response. It was helpful! >That can't work. Big objects such as images are not copied to the >clipboard (on Linux and AFAIK also on Windows). When you copy an image >the clipboard only contains a message that allows the receiving >process >to connect to the source process and get the data directly form it. In >your case, since Gimp exits immediately after copying the data, the >receiving process cannot connect to it. > >Try this: > > * Start another application (word processor) > * Open an image in Gimp > * Copy to clipboard (Ctrl-A, Ctrl-C) >* Back to the word processor: Ctrl-V to copy the image: it should >work > * Ctrl-V to copy the image a second time: it should work > * Close the Gimp image window (but keep Gimp up) > * Ctrl-V to copy the image a third time: it should work > * Close Gimp completely >* Ctrl-V to copy the image a fourth time: it won't work, because >Gimp > is no longer here to service it. > >On a side note, having batch process use the clipboard is treacherous; >while they run you cannot do anything on your system since they could >overwrite what you put in the clipboard.
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