On Monday 16 May 2011 10:24:01 Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> kdebase-workspace is meant to be a single module giving you a working
> KDE desktop, that includes a clipboard and hence klipper is part of it.

Technically, you'd get a clipboard (well, 10+ actually) from X alone. Klipper 
provides history, actions, synchronization and edit functionality on top of 
that.

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Kind regards, Esben