When will we have a clipboard that works?

[ruscook]

I found I could not cut and paste between open office spreadsheet and
Abiword. 

I would expect the clipboard to be managed by the window manager and
therefore be application independent. 

It seems we still have a ways to go in this regards.

On Thu, 2006-11-23 at 06:48 +0100, Mario Vukelic wrote:

> On Wed, 2006-11-22 at 22:11 -0500, Marc Deslauriers wrote:
> > Works for me. I open gedit, select a line of text, copy it to the
> > clipboard, close gedit, and I can paste it anywhere. 
> 
> Some apps are buggy in this regard. E.g., if you Ctrl+C some text in an
> Evolution composer window, discard the window and try to Ctrl+V anywhere
> else it does not work. This started during the Dapper dev cycle. but in
> in Launchpad, but still not fixed in Edgy
> 
> 

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