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Clipboard management using dmenu
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Why might one want to enable CM_OWN_CLIPBOARD=1? #206

Closed nhooyr closed 4 months ago

nhooyr commented 1 year ago

Hi, I was wondering why one would want to enable the setting CM_OWN_CLIPBOARD=1?

What does it mean for clipmenud to take ownership of the clipboard? And why is such behaviour helpful?

I noticed it used to be default but that was changed after numerous issues with other applications that also took ownership of the clipboard.

cdown commented 4 months ago

What does it mean for clipmenud to take ownership of the clipboard? And why is such behaviour helpful?

When an X application dies, it cannot serve its clipboard content. Having a long running daemon like clipmenud to serve it allows it to persist after its death.

nhooyr commented 4 months ago

Ah copy thanks!