Oddly enough I've noticed this behaviour, but only from firefox ... never any other apps <div>On 9/27/06, Simon <<a href="mailto:simon@swedishdrunkard.com"> simon@swedishdrunkard.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I switched to Ubuntu (and Linux as a whole) about 7-8 months ago, and needless to say, I'll never go back (you know what place I'm talking about). However, one thing has irritated me from the first day. It seemed as if many times, when I copied something (using ctrl+c) and then attempted to paste it, the clipboard would be empty. Of course I can slip every now and then and hit the wrong combination, but what I was used to before Ubuntu was probably a 99% success rate, whereas now, I seemed to lose the data probably two times out of three. Then finally tonight, I think I might have found the problem. I needed to print about 50 lines of text from a website, but since I also need to make notes on top of the printout (by hand), I just copied it and went to paste it into OOo and change the line spacing. Again, there was nothing to be pasted. A sigh and an attempt to go back and copy it again, just to find I'd closed the browser window. And I realised that that was happening quite often. In fact, almost every time. So I tested it; every time I copy something out of one window and then close it, it will not be pastable (is that a word? lol). The only exception (and I'll admit I haven't done an insane amount of testing) seems to be gnome applications, such as Gedit. Kate and FF won't carry over the data after they've been closed. So is this because they're not 100% native to Gnome? I didn't go into KDE yet and see if Kate and Kwrite would carry their data properly. What, if any, would be a possible solution to this (yes, I know I could just leave the window open, but old habits die hard)? Of course this is a minor annoyance, but it is indeed a reoccurring one and one I've never had to put up with before, so I'd be very happy to find a way around it. Oh, and I just realised this became much longer than I thought, sorry about that, but hopefully someone takes the time to read through it. Best regards, Simon -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users </a> </blockquote></div>