On Mon, 2009-05-04 at 18:43 +0200, drago01 wrote:
> Adrin is right, though - GNOME's had a built-in clipboard
manager for
> several releases now, so this works with most applications
> transparently.
>
> However, it still seems to be working for me, with today's Rawhide. I
> just tested by copying something from gedit, closing gedit, and then
> pasting it into a gnome-terminal. Worked OK.
>
> I can't find any references for this, though (I learned about it via
> Planet GNOME eons ago), so I wouldn't know how to tell what's gone wrong
> for Adrin.
This only works for the Ctrl+C / Ctrl+V way.
If you select a text and try to paste using the middle mouse button it
only works when the source app is open.
I don't think that's a regression, though is it? Hasn't it always been
that way?
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