Comment on I don't like the Linux clipboard situation

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notabot@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

The thing is, in X11 that clipboard behaviour was written once, and that made it work everywhere. Obviously there’ll have been work done on it over time, and non-native frameworks (java UIs and such) would have had to do it themselves, but for the vast majority of programs the author, and indeed the author of the toolkit probably didn’t have to think about it at all. It’s one of the nice things about the X11 architecture that I think we lose with the wayland approach, everything that should work the same everywhere is written once. I suspect that over time we’ll see only a few wayland compositors really lasting and being maintained, and we’ll start to get back to that common architecture.

I can definitely understand your frustration with the clipboard situation, but it’s a decades old paradigm, and I’m used to it, so it seems reasonable to me. That said, I do use clipman to automatically store the text I’ve copied to the clipboard, and let me switch to previous values, so maybe that sort of thing would at least help you a bit?

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