Re: Follow up about X clipboard

[Hongli Lai <h lai chello nl>]

Alan wrote:
> Agreed 100% here, but isn't that what gclipd (or whatever it was called)
> tried to do, and then the author left the project not that long ago
> saying that he realized he couldn't solve the problem with a simple
> little app (or something like that)?

There are two such apps:

1. GNOME Clipboard Manager (http://gcm.sf.net/). Last update is from 
2002, I don't know whether it's still maintained. It tries to be a 
"super clipboard" (with clipboard history and plugins and other fancy 
stuff).

2. GNOME Clipboard Daemon (written by me, 
http://members1.chello.nl/~h.lai/gnome-clipboard-daemon/). It has no GUI 
and does nothing but keeping the clipboard content in memory: it runs in 
the background and just works. It also works around bugs in Mozilla and 
a specific version of QT 3.

So far most users who are using my daemon are quite happy with it. I've 
heard of rumors that there are performance problems with Gnumeric for 
example, but nobody has really confirmed it, and I'm unable to reproduce 
it myself. I've been using this app for months now and so far I haven't 
had any performance problems.