Cut and paste behavior

John Summerfield debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Mon Oct 29 09:14:05 UTC 2007


Chu Tan wrote:
> I find that if I cut some text from an app, once the app is closed the
> text in the clipboard is also cleared.
> 
> Is this a linux feature, or some bug that happens on my installation?

Cut & paste on Linux is different from on OS/2 and Windows, and KDE is 
different from Gnome.

And some apps insist on doing it the Windows way, and some both ways.

What are you using?



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