Where is clipboard location?

Question

Somebody said the contents in clipboard will be lost if I close the application where is the copy sauce, but in fact, if I right click on the selected texts from an application, click copy, now if I close the application where I copy from, You can still paste contents, so the contents in clipboard is must be stored in location or memory, I want to look at where clipboard.

Answer 1

There is not a file with clipboard contents, unless you have a non-stanadard application that does so for you (It's built in with some desktop apps such as cairo-dock for example)

A user on a ubuntu forum explains this perfectly here

For reference:

You seem to ben lacking an understanding of clipboards in linux. There are 3 usually available to users.

These clipboards are called "Selections"

There is:

• PRIMARY - This is normally used for middle mouse button = copy/paste
• SECONDARY - Normally not used by much, but it exists. Usually as an in app specific copy and paste.
• CLIPBOARD - Usually ctrl+c and ctrl+v style copy and paste.

All of them are stored, by default in memory of the controlling application (usually Xorg, but not always). And every child application has access to it.

Clipboard monitors and managers exist that can monitor the clipboards and store their contents in a file, or more commonly, let you review your clipboard history.