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README (text/plain), 1.03 KB, created by TGL on 2004-01-24 17:55:15 UTC

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  GNOME Clipboard Daemon - Copyright (C) 2003  Hongli Lai <[e-mail]>
     http://members.chello.nl/~h.lai/gnome-clipboard-daemon/index.html
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Normally, when you copy something in an X application and you close it, the 
content of the clipboard is lost. This is probably one of the biggest reasons
why people keep saying that copy & paste in Linux "doesn't work".

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. You start it and it'll run in 
the background and Just Work(tm).

Example:

   1. Start AbiWord.
   2. Type in 'hello world'. Select everything and click Copy.
   3. Close AbiWord.
   4. Start gedit.
   5. Click Paste. Normally nothing will happen. But if GNOME Clipboard Daemon
      is running, pasting will work.