Is it normal that text in the clipboard gets lost?

[ianseeks]

On Wednesday 05 Jun 2013 20:03:20 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> There's something that always bugged me a bit with the clipboard.  I
> don't know whether it's a bug or intended behavior.  It goes like this:
> when I open an application, select some text in it, then copy it to the
> clipboard with Ctrl+C, then close the application and finally try to
> paste the text from the clipboard into somewhere else, there's nothing
> to copy.  At the moment I closed the application I copied the text from,
> the clipboard contents die.
> 
> This is surprising, since "copying to the clipboard", at least on every
> other OS I'm using, really means "copying".  Even if the application the
> text came from goes away, the copied text is still in the clipboard.  Is
> this a bug?
> 
I have this happen on occasions but not all the time, mainly when using 
openoffice or firefox.  I donlt have any issues between native KDE programs

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