From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
To: Jonathan del Strother <maillist@steelskies.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: gitk's copy pasteboard doesn't persist after it quits
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 16:01:05 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071122210105.GY14735@spearce.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DFBFC631-01BF-4D2D-BCF3-3FC376479CB2@steelskies.com>
Jonathan del Strother <maillist@steelskies.com> wrote:
> On OS X, if I load gitk, copy a sha1, then quit, the sha1 isn't put
> into the system-wide pasteboard. It's definitely copied - I can paste
> it back into the sha1 field - but it seems to be some sort of local
> pasteboard that's specific to gitk
>
> If I switch to another app, the sha1 is stored in the pasteboard
> correctly, and I can then quit gitk and still have it available. I'm
> guessing that gitk (or Tcl/Tk) is syncing with the system-wide
> pasteboard on focus change, but not on quit.
I've seen this not just on Mac OS X but also on Windows. It seems
like Tk wipes the clipboard clean on exit, so I've just learned to
not exit a Tk application until I'm done with the clipboard...
--
Shawn.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-22 21:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-22 11:44 gitk's copy pasteboard doesn't persist after it quits Jonathan del Strother
2007-11-22 21:01 ` Shawn O. Pearce [this message]
2007-11-22 21:29 ` Jean-François Veillette
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