clipboard-daemon: clipboard-daemon (Holds the X clipboard in memory) clipboard-daemon: clipboard-daemon: Normally, when you copy something in an X application and you close clipboard-daemon: it, the content of the clipboard is lost. This is probably one of the clipboard-daemon: biggest reasons why people keep saying that copy & paste in Linux clipboard-daemon: "doesn't work". clipboard-daemon: Clipboard Daemon is a program that keeps the content of your X clipboard-daemon: clipboard in memory, so the clipboard won' get lost even after you clipboard-daemon: close the application you copied from. clipboard-daemon: It's a daemon - it has no GUI. You start it and it'll run in the clipboard-daemon: background and Just Work(tm).