Clipboard is broken. Gnome must include glipper by default
Bug #506980 reported by
LimCore
This bug report is a duplicate of:
Bug #11334: MASTER Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste.
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Bug Description
For end user it does not matter that there are work around like (install glipper),
for end user simply: clipboard does not work in Ubuntu.
This is a disaster.
User can have some important data in clipboard-only, close the source application, and it's gone!
Such user will totally not care "you should install glipper", he will just loose his data.
To solve this, just install glipper for him - install glipper always for Ubuntu.
This sounds trivial, but in fact this IS a user-data-loss bug. Priority medium imho (especially, as most users that do not research linux/ubuntu will not know about the work around until they loose some data - so its too late)
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Hi LimCore,
thank you for reporting this bug.
The behaviour yo are discribing here is not true for all applications, GTK applications have their own clipboard system, for example when you copy text in gedit, close gedit and paste it into a gnome-terminal it works.
However this does not work with applications like firefox.
I'm also not sure that this described behaviour us expected by a significant amount of useres, I for example don't expect a clipboard manager by default, when I close an application I expect to loose all data.
To have glipper installed by default glipper needs to be in main, so please follow the MIR [0] process.
Markus
[0] https:/ /wiki.ubuntu. com/MainInclusi onProcess