[Lazarus] Lazarus GTK clears clipboard on exit

[R.Smith]

On 2022/04/22 12:54, John Landmesser via lazarus wrote:
> I'm fighting with google-chrome-stable on Manjaro Linux XFCE that clears
> clipboard history when closed.
> ...
> I rember, but not shure, that this behaviour of an application is
> "usual" on linux??


It's Arch + X11, so yes, because of this:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/clipboard

i.e. There is no real "clipbaord" space, "Copy" is handled more like a 
"Promise-to-send-if-asked", but if asked after you are dead, then 
fulfilling that promise is hard.

Best option is to install one of the myriad of clipboard managers. They 
persist the copied data in local buffers and promise it forward.


>
> Firefox for example is not doing this ...

That's because Firefox never really fully exits, its clipboard manager 
remains, I believe. They solved this their way because they encountered 
this same problem even on Ubuntu some years ago, used to be a known 
irritating bug that Firefox specifically "lost the clipboard contents" 
after exiting.
Ref: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/21202


>
> Tipps are welcome
>
As stated before, a clipboard maanger is the only real option. A Google 
search for this specifically should be very fruitful.