Bug 368482

Summary: Clipboard gets wrong content because it is too slow?
Product: [Plasma] plasmashell Reporter: João Vidal da Silva <joao.vidal.silva>
Component: generalAssignee: David Edmundson <kde>
Status: RESOLVED NOT A BUG    
Severity: normal CC: bshah, plasma-bugs-null
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 5.7.3   
Target Milestone: 1.0   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
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Description João Vidal da Silva 2016-09-09 08:31:12 UTC 
My platform is Manjaro.
The following behaviour can be reproduced with Kate or LO-Writer, for instance.

There are occasions where I want to cut the first part of a text line into the clipboard, then delete the rest of the line, and then copy the clipboard into another document.

I can do it most of the time but, if I start to speed up, the clipboard starts getting the end of the line that was deleted and not the part that was cut.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. In a text editor, write a sentence with a few words.

2. Select the first few words with the keyboard using Ctrl-Shift-RIGHT.

3. Next, we'll cut the selection, then select the rest of the line and delete it.
*Quickly*, press Ctrl-X, then press Shift-RIGHT, then press DEL.

4. Press Ctrl-V to see the clipboard content: if it was done fast enough, it will be the deleted portion.
Comment 1 João Vidal da Silva 2016-09-09 08:35:28 UTC 
Step 3 should be:
*Quickly*, press Ctrl-X, then press Shift-End, then press DEL.
Comment 2 David Edmundson 2016-10-09 23:22:59 UTC 
I reproduced this in Kate.
However, I also reproduced it with plasmashell not running.

Therefore it's not a Plasma problem. Sorry.
Comment 3 João Vidal da Silva 2016-10-10 02:18:03 UTC 
You think it's an X thing?