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

Jonathan del Strother [off-list ref] wrote:

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.