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Re: Clear Clipboard

jase — Mon Sep 13, 2010 8:13 am

Author: jase

Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2010 8:13 am

Thanks chaps, makes sense.

Re: Clear Clipboard

nelz — Mon Sep 13, 2010 12:52 am

Author: nelz

Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2010 12:52 am

You can clear both clipboards, or at least store an empty string in them, with xclip.

Re: Clear Clipboard

PCNetSpec — Mon Sep 13, 2010 12:08 am

Author: PCNetSpec

Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2010 12:08 am

This has me interested too, I can find plenty of references to Linux clipboard managers such as glipper etc. but once installed they seem to "take over" the job of the clipboard... ie. using the clear button only seems to clear the glipper clipboard buffer, not anything that was in the buffer *before* glipper took over.

I originally thought (at least in Ubuntu) that xclipboard was managing the clipboard, but if you enter:

Code:

xclipboard

in a terminal, you get:

Quote:

Error: another clipboard is already running

does this mean there is another clipboard manager running, or that there is another instance of xclipboard running.

Anyone know exactly what (by default) is managing the clipboard?

[EDIT]

@jase
Installing the parcellite package will give you a panel object which has a clear clipboard menu item that *seems* to clear the clipboard completely.

But I still want to know exactly what it's doing in the background.

Re: Clear Clipboard

nelz — Sun Sep 12, 2010 9:54 pm

Author: nelz

Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2010 9:54 pm

Why do you need to clear the clipboard? As Towy said, its contents are automatically replaced the next time you use it.

BTW, would you please reduce the size of your avatar, 60x60 is the maximum for these forums.

Re: Clear Clipboard

loebus — Sun Sep 12, 2010 8:46 pm

Author: loebus

Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2010 8:46 pm

jase, towy71 has answered your question!

I use a clipboard manager program "Pastie", which remembers the last 25 copied items by default, there is an option in the Pastie menu "Clean History"

If you mean the CLI history edit .bash_history with a text editor such as gedit.

Re: Clear Clipboard

jase — Sun Sep 12, 2010 5:33 pm

Author: jase

Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2010 5:33 pm

so, how do I clear the clipboard

Re: Clear Clipboard

towy71 — Thu Sep 09, 2010 9:09 am

Author: towy71

Posted: Thu Sep 09, 2010 9:09 am

unless you have some sort of clipboard tracker installed, highlight a word on this web page right-click and select copy and that will be the only thing in clipboard

Clear Clipboard

jase — Thu Sep 09, 2010 5:07 am

Author: jase

Posted: Thu Sep 09, 2010 5:07 am

I have copied 20gb of data from a remote drive to my PC running Ubuntu 9.10.

How do I now clear the clipboard?

Many thanks