The clipboard is a buffer that some operating systems provide for short-term storage and transfer within and between application programs.

It is left to the program to define methods for the user to command these operations, which may include keybindings and menu selections.

Windows, Linux[citation needed] and macOS support a single clipboard transaction.

The sending and receiving application negotiate the formats which can be transferred in between them, oftentimes with the active GUI widget responsible for providing acceptable type transformations.

In early 2013 researchers exposed risks stemming from Android-based password managers and documented how passwords in 21 of the most popular of these apps could be accessed by any other app on an Android device including those with extremely low-level privileges.

On platforms such as Linux that use multiple incompatible GUI toolkits, clipboard managers are often used to transfer data between applications using different such frameworks.

These managers generally also provide a window that displays the transaction history and allows the user to select earlier copies, edit them, change their format and even search amongst them.

Clipboard managers can also serve as tools to overcome the limitation of software not supporting copying and pasting (for example, while logging into remote Windows server, one cannot copy and paste their user name and password).

[17] To interact with the clipboard, an app uses the class ClipboardManager[18] and system calls to cut, copy, and paste objects.

[20] The data contained in the pasteboard cannot be accessed via the GUI but only from the system and applications The clipboard in macOS holds one item in multiple available formats.

The three different types of possible formats are:[24] Up to and including Windows XP the clipboard could be accessed via the ClipBook Viewer application.

Symbian S60 (Series 60), depending on edition, has a built-in clipboard with image and richtext storing support.

To insert the text into a document, press and hold #, and select Paste.In S60v3 (S60 3rd Edition, Symbian 9.1-9.2) examples of clipboard provided with the SDK: ..\Examples\SysLibs\Clipboard\Basics.

There is one small but important phrase which can figure out CPlainText as non-acceptable solution in your case: “…all line feeds are converted into paragraph delimiters…”In Symbian Belle, clipboard support defined with CClipboard Class in the Basic Application Framework Library (BAFL).

However, most modern toolkits and desktop environments, such as GNOME or KDE, follow a widely accepted convention, outlined in the freedesktop.org specification.