CITATION — REFERENCE ENTRY
selection-async-protocol · freedesktop-clipboards-wiki
- Citation
- freedesktop-clipboards-wiki
- Claim ID
- selection-async-protocol
- Assertion
- X11 selections are an asynchronous protocol: the owning application holds the data and responds to paste requests on demand rather than copying data to a central store. As a result, clipboard data disappears when the owning application exits, unless a clipboard manager is running.
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