Comment 194 for bug 11334

So linux does it differently compared to the method that windows and OS X does? Why not do it the same? Why don't we change the freedesktop.org to match how windows and OS X does?

I agree with developers who refuse to implement it because it's not the same on windows and OS X, that it's stupid. Why should a developer need to change their applications behavior for linux when the same behavior works on windows and OS X?

This should be fixed in xorg. That way it's automatically fixed in all linux gui based applications. The only applications that should be checking the clipboard contents when they exit are ones that copy large chunks of data like chunks of audio or video for example.

What's stopping this? Stubborn developers who think that the terminal application should come first that want their selection based copy and paste to still work. It's a small number of developers too that is causing pain for everyone else.

But if xorg is forked and the clipboard is implemented just like in windows and OS X, I wonder how many distributions will drop xorg and put in the replacement for it. That will show you truly if a linux desktop distribution is for ordinary users or the traditional linux developer from 1993.

I hope that it's a group of developers from Ubuntu, because that would truly show that Ubuntu wants to be the linux desktop distribution of choice. I know they can do it.