Bug 236765

Summary: Clipboard content lost when closing source application
Product: [I don't know] kde Reporter: Søren Holm <sgh>
Component: generalAssignee: Unassigned bugs mailing-list <unassigned-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal    
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Ubuntu   
OS: Linux   
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Description Søren Holm 2010-05-07 21:39:56 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE 4.4.3)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages

Clipboard content is lost when the source application - the application that I copy data from - is closed.

It can be reproduced like this :
1. Open 2 instances of kwrite
2. Write something in instance 1
3. Copy the text with CTRL-C
4. Verify that the text can be inserted in instance 2 with CTRL-V
5. Close instance 1
6. Try to insert text again in instance 2 using CTRL-V

The expected result is that the text is inserted, but it isn't. Somehow the data is not copied away from the application.

The same scenario applies when using the X11 middle-click approach.

It seems that all kde application is affected, but also data copied from xterm disappears if xterm is closed.
Comment 1 Christoph Feck 2010-05-08 22:05:27 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 229052 ***