Bug 53526 - selection is shown, but cannot be pasted
Summary: selection is shown, but cannot be pasted
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: kde
Classification: I don't know
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: unspecified Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
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Reported: 2003-01-28 18:18 UTC by Alain Knaff
Modified: 2005-10-11 23:44 UTC (History)
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Description Alain Knaff 2003-01-28 18:18:22 UTC
Version:           1.2 (using KDE 3.1-0)
Compiler:          gcc version 3.2.1 20021207 (Red Hat Linux 8.0 3.2.1-2)
OS:          Linux (i686) release 2.4.20-2.12

In the konsole shipped with RedHat's rawhide, selection often acts funny.

You select text, it does indeed show up as selected (i.e. in reverse), but when you want to paste it somewhere, you either get nothing at all, or some text that you had selected before this one.

Often, moving the mouse out of the konsole and back in fixes the situation: text shows unselected as soon as you leave, and after re-entering selection works again (i.e. can be pasted, and stays selected after leaving.

However, once konsole gets into this mode, it will go back into that mode again with a high probability. There also seems to be a correlation with scrolling (i.e. it happens more often after scrolling back)
Comment 1 Stephan Binner 2003-01-31 22:35:12 UTC
How do you "paste it somewhere". You are only talking about the selection 
clipboard? 
Comment 2 Alain Knaff 2003-02-01 00:25:09 UTC
I use the middle mouse button to paste it. 
Comment 3 Stephan Binner 2003-02-25 23:11:42 UTC
Does this happen too if you quit Klipper before you try to reproduce this? 
Comment 4 Alain Knaff 2003-02-28 13:12:02 UTC
It happens even without klipper running. However, since I upgraded to the released 3.1 
(rather than RedHat's beta) it happens much more rarely (only once every couple of 
days now, versus several times per day before) 
 
 
Comment 5 Stephan Binner 2003-04-13 19:56:55 UTC
Provide a good description how to reproduce it (in less than some days trying) and I 
will look at it. 
Comment 6 Alain Knaff 2003-05-08 15:59:59 UTC
It seems that this bug is somehow related to the presence of a wine application (Lotus Notes 
running within wine). 
Today, I got stuck into a situation where the problem was permanent: I could no longer paste 
anything from one konsole to another (or from one konsole to the same...). Pasting to non-KDE 
apps (such as xterm) still worked however. 
Once I killed my Lotus notes, konsole was fine again. However, I could still not post anything to 
or from konqueror. 
 
Here are my Clipboard settings in ~/.wine/config at the time when the problem appeaared: 
 
[Clipboard] 
"ClearAllSelections" = "1" 
"PersistentSelection" = "1" 
 
However, even restarting wine/lotusNotes with different settings (PersistenSelection commented 
out) did not fix the problem in konqueror. Manually killing all konqueror processes did not help 
either. I'll guess I'll have to restart my entire KDE session. 
 
Sorry, I have still no reliable way of producting the problem (apart from starting Lotus Notes in 
wine, and then just working a day, doing random stuff...), but I though you might be interested in 
knowing that wine plays some important role in the picture. 
 
Comment 7 Tommi Tervo 2004-10-28 13:41:27 UTC
This happens still with KDE-3.3.1 and qt-copy sometimes. Selection is inversed and tranferred to klipper but it's not active -> cannot paste by MMB. You'll have to select it again or check it from top of klipper clipboard.

Cannot say how to reproduce, sometimes it happens and usually not.

I don't use wine applications, only non kde apps are mozilla-firefox and opera which I use.

My klipperc:

[General]
AutoStart=false
ClipboardData=/dev/input/mice,\n,Pietet,PietetillÀ,cvs,ore-devel,Ê
IgnoreSelection=false
MaxClipItems=7
NoEmptyClipboard=false
ReplayActionInHistory=false
Strip Whitespace before exec=true
SynchronizeClipboards=false
Timeout for Action popups (seconds)=8
UseGUIRegExpEditor=false
Version=v0.9.6
Comment 8 Alain Knaff 2005-10-11 23:44:23 UTC
Just an update: the problem no longer happens for me with recent KDE versions