GNOME Clipboard Manager - Documentation

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GNOME Clipboard Manager is an application to manage your selections a.k.a. clipboards.

Short: GNOME Clipboard Manager for Gnome 2.0 desktops (Gcm-2) is an application for managing selections a.k.a. clipboards and their available targets. It auto- collects selections and their targets on a shelf and has the option to choose which selection is to be pasted when an applications sends a request for the selection (a.k.a. the clipboard) in a specific target. Selections can be edited, manually created, merged, deleted, saved to files, loaded from files, copied, and pasted. The available selection types are clipboard, primary, secondary or a custom atom.

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(This information might or might not be correct, please send corrections to me if you think something is wrong here. I am not an X-specialist :)

Because the clipboard in X uses a few names and words that are not the same in the Microsoft Windows world, I've made a small data dictionary. Not all of these words are used on this webpage but its good to understand a few basics about X before starting to use the GNOME Clipboard Manager :

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