[Lazarus] Clipboard Data Goes Away

[Colin Western]

This is the way the linux clipboard works - the data is kept with the source program, so goes when the program closes.

Colin

> On 01/04/2021 07:58 Anthony Walter via lazarus <lazarus at lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote:
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> On Linux Gtk2, over time I have noticed a problem where data copied to the clipboard by a Lazarus application does not persist on the clipboard after the Lazarus program has exited.
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> While writing this application (https://cache.getlazarus.org/images/desktop/capture-tool.png) that captures image data to the clipboard, the data on the clipboard is only available to other applications while mine is running. If I exit my program the clipboard data goes away. The same problem occurs if the clipboard data is text rather than a bitmap.
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> Is this a known issue on Linux LCL Gtk2? Is there a workaround?
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> Thank you for your attention.
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