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		mFixman on Oct 28, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: On Abandoning the X Server This is a good time to ask a question I wondered for a long time: why is does the clipboard depend on the window manager at all? Wouldn't it be easier to make it a separate service instead of having X or Wayland deal with it?

account42 on Oct 29, 2020 [–]

There is no technical reason why it needs to be in the window system (well in X the clipboard goes away if you if the client that set it exits, but that is unwanted anyway) but from a user perspective it is very close to keyboard input so it makes sense to have it be handled by the same system.

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