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Clipboard content gone after exiting game

steamclosed reviewedNot a bugMOVED: Counter‐Strike
ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#985 · opened 2013-01-28 by z0id · updated 2013-01-28 · 6 comments · github
Zz0id 2013-01-28 github

I often need to copy info from the console in Counter-Strike and paste it in another application. Since alt + tab does't work, I have to exit the game before I paste, but the copied text is gone from the clipboard after exiting.

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?ghost 2013-01-28 github

I think this is by design, most other apps do this too.

Aalfred-valve maintainer 2013-01-28 github

Right, this is how X works, making alt-tab is the right fix here.

Zz0id 2013-01-28 github

That doesn't seem right. It defeats the purpose of having a clipboard. Also, I can't find any other application that has the clipboard cleared when it's closed. Does Gnome/Unity has a workaround that makes the clipboard content stay in memory after app is closed?

Gguihkx 2013-01-28 github

That's how it should be. If you want that the clipboard content be accessible by the other applications, just install a clipboard manager, e.g. parcellite.

Zz0id 2013-01-28 github

That's how it should be. If you want that the clipboard content be accessible by the other applications [...]

What do you mean? You copy and paste data between applications all the time. Using a clipboard manager was a good idea though; it's a good workaround for me.

?ghost 2013-01-28 github

It's not really broken since it's implemented like that in X11. Mostly due to the client-server architecture.

z0id [email protected] wrote:

That's how it should be. If you want that the clipboard content be accessible by the other applications [...]
What do you mean? You copy and paste data between applications all the time. Using a clipboard manager was a good idea though; it's good workaround for me.

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