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[jase]

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

[towy71]

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
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[jase]

so, how do I clear the clipboard

[loebus]

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.

[nelz]

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.
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[PCNetSpec]

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:

[nelz]

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

Thanks chaps, makes sense.