Copying part of an image with GIMP (Mac) places the png logo on the clipboard instead?

Posted by Pieter Witvoet on Super User See other posts from Super User or by Pieter Witvoet
Published on 2010-05-03T12:42:26Z Indexed on 2010/05/03 12:49 UTC
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Whenever I open a .png in GIMP and try to copy the current selection to the clipboard the png file icon image is inserted in the clipboard instead. Pasting does not seem to be a problem however.

Anyone knows what causes this, and how this can be fixed?

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