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firecat53 / urlscan

Mutt and terminal url selector (similar to urlview)
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Clipboard clears after exit #119

Closed Farzat07 closed 2 years ago

Farzat07 commented 2 years ago

This seems to be a problem with the way X handles the clipboard in general, as explained in this page, and this issue on stackoverflow.

The recommended workaround seems to be using a clipboard manager, so I'll probably do that. I'm mainly opening this for people's reference. Also there seems to be workarounds to fix this from the program level as well, but not sure if they should be implemented.

firecat53 commented 2 years ago

I'm not seeing this problem at all running i3. I can open mutt, copy a link to the clipboard with urlscan, close urlscan, close mutt and still paste the results multiple times.

Not sure exactly what issue you are seeing?

Farzat07 commented 2 years ago

It is not like the problem always happens - but it used to happen more often than not in my case.

Now that I'm using clipmenu though it stopped happening.

Seems that the problem doesn't happen to many people though, given that I am the first one opening this here. That's why I opened this: to let other people know that the problem is with X and that they should probably get a clipboard manager, as I was myself confused when it happened to me and there was no related issue in the tracker to help me figure it out.