[Lazarus] Lazarus GTK clears clipboard on exit

[Fred van Stappen]

Hello.

GTK uses X11 and under X, there isn't really a clipboard.

See  https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/450508/how-to-keep-clipboard-content-from-xterm-after-closing-it-like-firefox-or-le

Firefox has his own clipboard manager.

The easiest is to use a clipboard manager, for example with XFCE: xfce4-clipman
( To install : sudo apt-get install clipman and to run : xfce4-clipman )

Just run it before your application and use it after close your application.

If you want create your own clipboard manager, like Firefox does, it is more tricky...


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De : lazarus <lazarus-bounces at lists.lazarus-ide.org> de la part de John Landmesser via lazarus <lazarus at lists.lazarus-ide.org>
Envoyé : vendredi 22 avril 2022 12:54
À : lazarus at lists.lazarus-ide.org <lazarus at lists.lazarus-ide.org>
Cc : John Landmesser <jmlandmesser at gmx.de>
Objet : [Lazarus] Lazarus GTK clears clipboard on exit

History:

I'm fighting with google-chrome-stable on Manjaro Linux XFCE that clears
clipboard history when closed.

Searched in vain with google but just noticed: gtk applications as
lazarus-ide does it also and clears history on exit. Same with apps
developed with lazarus.

I rember, but not shure, that this behaviour of an application is
"usual" on linux??

Firefox for example is not doing this ...

Info:

Lazarus 2.3.0 (rev main-2_3-1125-g468f788b36) FPC 3.2.2 x86_64-linux-gtk2

Why do i asked this? Makes me crazy if i searched with google , found
something useful, copied, closed Chrome and shit: its gone. I have a
clipboard manager copyq where i can activate this item again ...
annoying :-(


Tipps are welcome

John

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