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Clipboard is already "synchronized" select a text somewhere, middle click somewhere else et voila.

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Until you close the app where you selected the text and now your clipboard is empty.

Or until you click somewhere, original app loses selection and your clipboard is now empty.

> Until you close the app where you selected the text and now your clipboard is empty.

Ho, I used it for years, and you made me discover that strange property. Interesting.

> Or until you click somewhere, original app loses selection and your clipboard is now empty.

Yes, it's a very volatile clipboard, but if you expect your clipboard to have a lifespan greater than 5 seconds, you're probably doing something wrong.

To solve this problem I use parcellite, which gives me access to my clipboard history.

On Linux, this is the X11 primary selection, not the clipboard.

It's a clipboard. I use mostly that one. It works everywhere.

You're both correct. Yes, it acts as a clipboard, for all practical purposes. But also it's a terminology thing.

If you'd open ICCCM, it uses name "CLIPBOARD" for a different selection atom: https://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.6/doc/xorg-docs/specs/ICCCM... So in X11 the term "clipboard" (in a technical, not colloquial sense) is reserved for a different selection. And thus primary selection is not a clipboard.

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