Copy and Paste issues

[Jeremy Kolb]

I think in some cases (gaim for example) if you close the window it 
loses it's contents :(

Jeremy

Erik Harrison wrote:
> I'm unsure if this is the place to put this, but if not, perhaps
> someone could redirect me.
> 
> Copying to the clipboard is behaving like a PRIMARY selection. I don't
> know when this behaviour started, and I only recently realized that it
> wasn't a bug in my application.
> 
> Whenever a copy is performed in an application, that data is lost from
> the clipboard as soon as the application closes. This happens across
> apps, toolkits, and desktop environments. Is there a X.org
> configuration that causes this issue?
> 
> Don't tell me it's been happening this way for 7 years now, and I just
> now caught on. :-(