Am 29.06.2012 18:46, schrieb John A. Sullivan III:
And IIRC, there are different types of clipboards on Linux, as well. See, for example, this link here: http://mutelight.org/subtleties-of-the-x-clipboard
<snip> Fascinating article. I am a KDE and thus Klipper user. I have noticed that sometimes pasting works perfectly fine whereas other times, I must activate the latest entry in Klipper. I wonder if that has to do with the difference between PRIMARY/CLIPBOARD/SECONDARY? I've noticed particular problems with OpenOffice. Thanks - John
Seems likely, though I haven't really experimented with it myself. I remember cursing wildly after closing the last Iceweasel window and finding myself unable to paste into Icedove or some other application back from when I was mainly using Linux as my desktop OS (2003-2009 were the Years of the Linux Desktop, it all started going downhill from there ;-)).
-Stefan