Normally the X selection only exists as long as the program it was selected in is running. Further, some buggy applications tend to forget their selection text after a little while. If you run:
xsel --keep
after selecting some important text, xsel will copy the text into its own memory so you can paste it elsewhere even if the original program exits or crashes.
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If a simple/old program can do this, couldn't this be integrated in gnome window manager ??
Found this from : http:// www.vergenet. net/~conrad/ software/ xsel/
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Make the selection contents persist in memory
Normally the X selection only exists as long as the program it was selected in is running. Further, some buggy applications tend to forget their selection text after a little while. If you run:
xsel --keep
after selecting some important text, xsel will copy the text into its own memory so you can paste it elsewhere even if the original program exits or crashes.
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If a simple/old program can do this, couldn't this be integrated in gnome window manager ??
Thanks