Re: State of the X clipboard, and perhaps a solution

[Hongli Lai <h lai chello nl>]

Jerry Haltom wrote:
> We do. I've been bitten by this numerous times. Daily I open up
> Evolution, find a saved piece of email that has a URL or password stored
> in it, copy it, close evolution and then attempt to paste the password
> into the program I am working with. I immediately know what I did wrong,
> but despite doing it at least a dozen times, I can't stop. It is a
> definite usability defect.

It may not be the perfect solution but you may want to use my GNOME 
Clipboard Daemon: 
http://members1.chello.nl/~h.lai/gnome-clipboard-daemon/index.html