Comment 228 for bug 11334

Wondering aloud....

If the application that owns the clipboard provides its contents (unavailable once it is closed)...

What if we always make Xserver itself be this application (the owner of the contents), and thus always serve its contents (always available!)

i.e., when the user copies (CTRL+C) or cuts (CTRL+V) instead of stopping at the point where the current application is "flagged as owner"... just go ahead and transfer contents + ownership to Xserver.... so, when the user pastes (CTRL+V) elsewhere, it will retrieve contents from Xserver... it doesn't matter if source application is opened or closed...

Makes sense?

Do we need a more complicated "design" for the solution? Or can we move forward by finding out how to implement the idea above?