Bug 190214

Summary:	copy to clipboard does not work quite right with kate
Product:	[Applications] kate	Reporter:	Jon Nelson <jnelson-kde>
Component:	general	Assignee:	KWrite Developers <kwrite-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Severity:	normal	CC:	chris27wjoyner
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Unspecified
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Description Jon Nelson 2009-04-20 23:31:00 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.2.2)
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs

open up two files in two different kate instances

copy text from one file to the clipboard. exit that instance of kate.

try to paste the text you copied into the other instace of kate. It does not work. For some reason, kate is not copying data to the clipboard the way other applications do.

Comment 1 Christoph Cullmann 2009-04-29 09:52:07 UTC

Hmm, to me that looks just like normal X11 behaviour, just checked, we use the right API functions, works like intended.

Comment 2 chris27wjoyner 2016-02-17 15:12:40 UTC

I am having the same problem, all I know is that after using copy in kate, then closing kate, my clipboard is cleared. 

I never had this problem with kate before, it only started this today. Can someone help out with what setting in Linux Mint or Ubuntu 14.04 LTS might need to be changed to allow the clipboard to remain after kate is closed?

A temporary solution to this problem is to keep kate open until after the paste has been made.