Contents of clipboard is deleted when the program from which text was copied is closed
This has been bugging me (no pun intended) for a while now, so I've decided to report it as a bug because that's what I consider it to be, please correct me if it has some function I have overlooked.
Example: I want to start VirtualBox so I click on my short cut to VirtualBox. Because I've upgraded VirtualBox the kernel module needs to be recompiled and a windows appears which says which command to run in order to do this. I highlight the command, and copy the text and close the window. I open a terminal and I try to paste the copied text but it's gone!
If I run VirtualBox again, copy the text and paste it into the terminal while keeping the window with the text open it works fine. But as soon as I close the program from which I copied the text, the text disappears from the clipboard!
This is, IMO, really annoying and I've experienced it several times now with other programs that I've copied text from and tried to paste after the program has been closed.
System information:
rune@runescomp:~$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 8.04.1
Release: 8.04
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This question was originally filed as bug #303411.
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