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  1. Bug #11334
  2. Comment #41

Comment 41 for bug 11334

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Guilhem (logik-free) wrote : Re: Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste

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