<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"><html><head><meta content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"></head><body >You could also let the paste function write to a text file on the disk. Then, no additional RAM memory is used. <div id="1"> ---- Aan Sun, 05 Feb 2012 16:11:45 +0100 David Reimer <<a href='mailto:djreimer@gmail.com' target='_blank'>djreimer@gmail.com</a>> schreef ---- </div> <blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid #0000FF; padding-left: 6px;">On 5 February 2012 15:03, Alexander Andjelkovic <<a href="mailto:andjelkovic@gmail.com" target="_blank">andjelkovic@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > Again, what exactly is the desired function? Parcellite does a lot of things. True. Desired function: provide system-wide clipboard, not dependent on apps running. > 2.7 Mb of memory sounds a bit too much if it's only purpose is to > guard your clipboard contents when you close applications. Alternative is to keep apps open, which is bound to take even more memory. What if I have "Big-App" running, and I want to copy from it to "Bigger-App"? I have to keep both open at the moment. On limited memory, that's far worse. (I speak from experience!) > Can it be solved in a better, even lighter way? Even if it would mean > we'd have to program it ourselves? I put this reference into the "bug report" (a.k.a. "opinion alert"): <a href="http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/ClipboardManager" target="_blank">http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/ClipboardManager</a> Might also be worth comparing what our XFCE friends have done: <a href="http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/panel-plugins/xfce4-clipman-plugin" target="_blank">http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/panel-plugins/xfce4-clipman-plugin</a> [aside] This has been a surprisingly energetic conversation! Everyone staying warm? ;) [/aside] David [djreimer | dajare] -- David Reimer | Edinburgh, UK <a href="http://wiki.ubuntu.com/djreimer" target="_blank">http://wiki.ubuntu.com/djreimer</a> | <a href="https://launchpad.net/%7Edjreimer" target="_blank">https://launchpad.net/~djreimer</a> -- Lubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:Lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank">Lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users</a> </blockquote> </body></html>