Bug 39299 – [new ebuild] gnome-clipboard-daemon-1.0

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

[Description TGL 2004-01-24 17:53:08 UTC]

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:

[Comment 1 TGL 2004-01-24 17:54:19 UTC]

Created attachment 24360 [details]
gnome-clipboard-daemon/gnome-clipboard-daemon-1.0.ebuild

[Comment 2 TGL 2004-01-24 17:55:15 UTC]

Created attachment 24361 [details]
files/README

[Comment 3 SpanKY 2004-01-25 14:01:59 UTC]

*** Bug 39378 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 4 rajas 2004-11-16 10:19:44 UTC]

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.

[Comment 5 Clemens Noss 2004-11-20 17:53:29 UTC]

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.

[Comment 6 Leonardo Boshell (RETIRED) 2005-05-15 15:08:54 UTC]

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

[Comment 7 TGL 2005-05-15 16:15:13 UTC]

Ok then. And thanks for the urls, that's some interesting readings.

[Comment 8 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2005-10-23 14:01:19 UTC]

*** Bug 110258 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***