From the homepage: "GNOME Clipboard Daemon is a program that keeps the content of your X clipboard in memory, so the clipboard won' get lost even after you close the application you copied from. It's a daemon - it has no GUI." For more details on this app, you can read: http://www.gnomedesktop.org/article.php?thold=0&mode=nested&order=0&sid=1614 Personaly, I've found this very useful, so here is an ebuild. The source distribution was really minimalistic, so I've added a README (text from the homepage) and a COPYRIGHT file (extracted from the sources). I suggest x11-misc for the category, despite the name suggests gnome-extra, because it is not gnome dependant at all (only gtk2), and may be used in other environment. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
Created attachment 24360 [details] gnome-clipboard-daemon/gnome-clipboard-daemon-1.0.ebuild
Created attachment 24361 [details] files/README
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Created attachment 44082 [details] Proposed init-script Hacked a small init-script. Not sure whether the daemon should run in user-context or at systemlevel. This one is for the second. Please correct me when I am wrong.
On my new installation with Gnome 2.8, this is required to make it usable. Pasting into most widgets is somehow suppressed for most applications, unless Gnome is not run or gnome-clipboard-daemon is started. I ran the init script as root, now I can paste as user.
This looks more like a quick hack, and the underlying problem is not completely solved yet. The clipboard problem needs a standard way to manage all cases, and it would require at least some support from freedesktop.org and regular applications. Anyway, no gentoo developers have stepped up to maintain this in our tree, so closing. Re-open/assign if this situation changes. Related links: Gnome's bug: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=121590 Mailing list discussion: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2003-September/msg00241.html http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2003-September/msg00238.html
Ok then. And thanks for the urls, that's some interesting readings.
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