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How to Fix the Ubuntu Clipboard Problem
April 27th, 2008 by Cheng Chen

Glipper LogoIn Ubuntu, there is an infamous issue with the Gnome clipboard manager. (Actually, it’s not even decent enough to be called a “clipboard manager.”) Many people face extremely annoying problems of losing data when copying and pasting, especially when the copied source is closed. Ironically, this problem has not been fixed in the recently released 8.04 Hardy Heron.

The Symptoms

  • Pasting from a copy returns empty.
  • Clipboard empties when the copied source is closed.
  • The user yells in annoyance as the system clipboard fails.

To solve the main issue of clipboard data loss, install Glipper for Ubuntu.

Glipper is a GNOME based clipboard manager. It is basically the GNOME counterpart of the KDE Klipper. Because Glipper is written in Python, it is customizable with many different Add-Ons and extensions. However, Glipper lacks the ability to handle image copy pastes.

How to Install:

Open the Synaptic Package Manager
System > Administration > Synaptic Lackage Manager

Search for ‘Glipper’ and mark it for installation. Afterwards, apply the installation.

Add Glipper to your GNOME Panel.
Right Clip Panel > Add to Panel > Drag “Clipboard manager” to an appropriate place in your panel.


6 Responses  
  • donk writes:
    April 29th, 2008 at 12:13

    parcellite, available from getdeb.net is another option, especially since glipper isnt developed anymore (afaik)

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    August 21st, 2008 at 20:09

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  • Johanne Strauss writes:
    December 5th, 2008 at 14:03

    jdpolson = tool

  • Dougle writes:
    March 3rd, 2009 at 06:09

    Thanks Donk, parcellite is a very good replacement for glipper which fails on hardy, intrepid, jaunty (atm)

    Doubt it’ll be fixed any time soon either.

  • Ubuntu 9.10 Clipboard Manager « Title goes here writes:
    November 24th, 2009 at 19:56

    [...] this article helped me diagnose what was going [...]

  • dbam writes:
    January 25th, 2010 at 01:51

    I’m using Parcellite 0.7, but copied text still fails a lot of times. The clipboard after ctrl+c is empty, but parcellite has the stuff saved (appears as the last entry)…wondering if it has to do with something else?
    I’m hooked on Ubuntu 8.10.



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