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On 2017-06-26 19:18, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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> Sometimes the clipboard contents even disappear if you exit the |
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> application you copied from. Start Google Chrome. Select the URL bar. |
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> Press Ctrl+C. Quit Google Chrome. Try Ctrl+V somewhere. It's gone. The |
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> clipboard content you just copied from Chrome is gone. |
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I think this is a feature, for privacy reasons. pass (the password |
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manager) does the same with passwords it puts into the clipboard. |
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> It's a good old huge big effing mess, as usual. The year of the Linux |
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> desktop will probably be the one where the freakin' clipboard actually |
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> works, because we still can't get it right in 2017. |
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This I agree with ;-) |
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One program that gets it 90% right is emacs. So, I often end up pasting |
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into the emacs scratch buffer and re-copying from there, as a workaround. |
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Please *no* private Cc: on mailing lists and newsgroups |
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Personal signed mail: please _encrypt_ and sign |
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Don't clear-text sign: |
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http://primate.net/~itz/blog/the-problem-with-gpg-signatures.html |