Re: gitk's copy pasteboard doesn't persist after it quits

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Nov 22, 2007, 21:01 UTC
Message-ID: <20071122210105.GY14735@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <DFBFC631-01BF-4D2D-BCF3-3FC376479CB2@steelskies.com>

Jonathan del Strother <maillist@steelskies.com> wrote:

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> 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...

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Shawn.