Comment 2 for bug 193762

I've used glipper and it works. It's installed by default in Foresight Linux (Gnome 2.20). It's a well-known issue that closing an application will normally wipe any clipboards associated with that application. It's a habit to close an application once you grab the data that you want to paste. Then poof! It's gone when you try to paste it. Why glipper is not installed by default in Ubuntu is beyond imagination.

Marking as incomplete until reporter can post a more specific use case. I could not figure out the replication from the post.