On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 8:04 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On Mon, 2009-05-04 at 18:43 +0200, drago01 wrote:
> > Adrin is right, though - GNOME's had a built-in clipboard manager for
> > several releases now, so this works with most applications
> > transparently.
> >
> > However, it still seems to be working for me, with today's Rawhide. I
> > just tested by copying something from gedit, closing gedit, and then
> > pasting it into a gnome-terminal. Worked OK.
> >
> > I can't find any references for this, though (I learned about it via
> > Planet GNOME eons ago), so I wouldn't know how to tell what's gone
wrong
> > for Adrin.
>
> This only works for the Ctrl+C / Ctrl+V way.
> If you select a text and try to paste using the middle mouse button it
> only works when the source app is open.
I don't think that's a regression, though is it? Hasn't it always been
that way?
Yeah has always been the case.