Bug 59187

Summary:	klipper does not always notice new selections
Product:	[Applications] klipper	Reporter:	Christian Ullrich <chris+kde>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Carsten Pfeiffer <pfeiffer>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	esigra, l.lunak
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Christian Ullrich 2003-05-31 21:58:02 UTC

Version:           v0.9.5 (using KDE 3.1.1)
Installed from:    SuSE
Compiler:          gcc version 3.3 20030226 (prerelease) (SuSE Linux)
OS:          Linux (i686) release 2.4.20-4GB-athlon

Quite often, klipper appears not to notice new selections. That is, it does not enter the new selection into its clipboard history and it does not display the action popup. Once I clear the clipboard history, klipper works again.
The new selection does make it into the clipboard, since I can paste it with the middle button as usual. It just does not reach klipper.

Comment 1 Thiago Macieira 2003-05-31 22:34:18 UTC

Can you give us steps to reproduce this bug? Does it happen with any particular 
kind of application (KDE application, Qt-only application, GNOME application, pure 
X, etc.)?

Comment 2 Christian Ullrich 2003-05-31 23:33:44 UTC

Most often it happens when I select text from an xterm window. But I can't pin it down to any 
specific situation. I've only ever encountered the problem with xterm because I don't use 
konsole, and all other apps I use present URLs as links anyway. 
Right now, I'm trying to reproduce the problem. As was to be expected, it has vanished.

Comment 3 Sam Cramer 2003-06-05 02:13:43 UTC

I also see this problem running KDE 3.1.2 on Gentoo.  The "action" pop-up often
does not fire when I select an URL from an XEmacs buffer.  At this point, if I
clear the clipboard history the next URL selection will cause the "action"
pop-up to fire.

Comment 4 Lubos Lunak 2003-06-05 11:22:24 UTC

I believe a fix I backported to KDE_3_1_BRANCH fixes this problem. Please check again with 
KDE3.1.3.

Comment 5 Lubos Lunak 2003-07-02 17:59:52 UTC

Please reopen if the problem remains with KDE-3.1.3 or KDE HEAD.

Comment 6 Tobias Buchloh 2004-02-17 10:43:24 UTC

Hi,

i can confirm this problem using kde 3.2.

When I select an URL u1 in KMail with "copy to clipboard", then the expected behaviour can be observed. But if I select another URL u2, then nothing happens. Neither the action popup appears, nor you can find u2 in clipboard history.

Cleaning the history "solves" the problem.

This is quite strange ...

Regards,
Tobias

Comment 7 Lubos Lunak 2004-02-17 15:39:32 UTC

What is your Qt version? Do you run Klipper as an applet or standalone as a systray application?

Comment 8 Tommi Tervo 2004-02-17 15:45:50 UTC

I can confirm, it's a long standing bug. Using HEAD qt-copy + patches and KDE_3_2_BRANCH.

Comment 9 Lubos Lunak 2004-02-17 19:26:29 UTC

Should be fixed.