Hello again, it's me with yet another issue with Inkscape 0.43, this time the clipboard.
I don't seem to be able to copy elements from one window to another. I
do remember, however that this was possible to do with Inkscape 0.42
and 0.41; on 0.43, however I'm unable. Whenever I copy a group, shape
or anythin of the sort to the clipboard, change the window and try to
paste it, I get a message that the clipboard is empty. I assume that
each window has, then its own clipboard, as I can paste stuff copied
from a window within that same window; either that, or two different
Inkscape will spawn two copies of the program and thus two clipboards.
I still have to see how does opening a new .svg from the "Open" dialog
within the application reacts instead of launching Inkscape from the
MIME association in the filemanager (GNOME and Nautilus in my case)...
Little, tiny update: Indeed. Apparently when opening an .svg from the
filemanager other than the one you are alrady working with, it will
spawn a new copy of Inkscape, and thus a new clipboard, where as when
opening another .svg from within Inkscape, the two windows will share
the same clipboard... Still, I don't remember this behavior with 0.42
and 0.41.
I know I have already answered my original question, but still, why is
this the case? And (I know there's going to be people who won't agree
with me on this) this is actually a great thing! As you can work on
several projects at the same time several files each with several
instances of the program opened, and they will not interfere with each
other. Excellent!