Bug 370680

Summary:	Klipper floods journal with QXcbClipboard: SelectionRequest too old
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	Teemu Rytilahti <tpr>
Component:	Clipboard	Assignee:	Martin Flöser <mgraesslin>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal	CC:	noahadvs
Priority:	NOR
Version:	5.15.3
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Teemu Rytilahti 2016-10-13 18:30:22 UTC

Klipper (and plasmashell's clipboard plugin) flood the journald's journal full of warning messages. Rate & amount is listed below, some of the ms 

-- Logs begin at Wed 2015-12-16 11:07:22 CET, end at Thu 2016-10-13 20:26:30 CEST. --

% journalctl -tklipper|grep -c "QXcbClipboard: SelectionRequest too old"
1807670

% journalctl -tplasmashell|grep -c "QXcbClipboard: SelectionRequest too old"
1944367


Oct 13 20:17:19 lumi klipper[2591]: QXcbClipboard: SelectionRequest too old
Oct 13 20:17:19 lumi klipper[2591]: QXcbClipboard: SelectionRequest too old
Oct 13 20:17:19 lumi klipper[2591]: QXcbClipboard: SelectionRequest too old
Oct 13 20:17:19 lumi klipper[2591]: QXcbClipboard: SelectionRequest too old
Oct 13 20:17:19 lumi klipper[2591]: QXcbClipboard: SelectionRequest too old
Oct 13 20:17:19 lumi klipper[2591]: QXcbClipboard: SelectionRequest too old
Oct 13 20:17:19 lumi klipper[2591]: QXcbClipboard: SelectionRequest too old
Oct 13 20:17:20 lumi klipper[2591]: QXcbClipboard: SelectionRequest too old
Oct 13 20:17:20 lumi klipper[2591]: QXcbClipboard: SelectionRequest too old
Oct 13 20:17:20 lumi klipper[2591]: QXcbClipboard: SelectionRequest too old
Oct 13 20:17:20 lumi klipper[2591]: QXcbClipboard: SelectionRequest too old
Oct 13 20:17:20 lumi klipper[2591]: QXcbClipboard: SelectionRequest too old
Oct 13 20:17:20 lumi klipper[2591]: QXcbClipboard: SelectionRequest too old
Oct 13 20:17:20 lumi klipper[2591]: QXcbClipboard: SelectionRequest too old
Oct 13 20:17:20 lumi klipper[2591]: QXcbClipboard: SelectionRequest too old
Oct 13 20:17:20 lumi klipper[2591]: QXcbClipboard: SelectionRequest too old
Oct 13 20:17:20 lumi klipper[2591]: QXcbClipboard: SelectionRequest too old
Oct 13 20:17:21 lumi klipper[2591]: QXcbClipboard: SelectionRequest too old
Oct 13 20:17:21 lumi klipper[2591]: QXcbClipboard: SelectionRequest too old
Oct 13 20:17:21 lumi klipper[2591]: QXcbClipboard: SelectionRequest too old
Oct 13 20:17:21 lumi klipper[2591]: QXcbClipboard: SelectionRequest too old
Oct 13 20:17:21 lumi klipper[2591]: QXcbClipboard: SelectionRequest too old
Oct 13 20:17:21 lumi klipper[2591]: QXcbClipboard: SelectionRequest too old
Oct 13 20:17:21 lumi klipper[2591]: QXcbClipboard: SelectionRequest too old
Oct 13 20:17:21 lumi klipper[2591]: QXcbClipboard: SelectionRequest too old
Oct 13 20:17:21 lumi klipper[2591]: QXcbClipboard: SelectionRequest too old
Oct 13 20:17:21 lumi klipper[2591]: QXcbClipboard: SelectionRequest too old
Oct 13 20:17:22 lumi klipper[2591]: QXcbClipboard: SelectionRequest too old
Oct 13 20:17:22 lumi klipper[2591]: QXcbClipboard: SelectionRequest too old
Oct 13 20:17:22 lumi klipper[2591]: QXcbClipboard: SelectionRequest too old
Oct 13 20:17:22 lumi klipper[2591]: QXcbClipboard: SelectionRequest too old
Oct 13 20:17:22 lumi klipper[2591]: QXcbClipboard: SelectionRequest too old


Reproducible: Always




"Save clipboard contents on exit", "Prevent empty clipboard" and "Ignore images" are selected in settings. Contents of the clipboard & selection are also synchronized.

Comment 1 Noah Davis 2023-08-11 13:39:15 UTC

Is this still a problem for you with Plasma 5.27? I could not reproduce this bug.

For posterity: The true version number for this report is likely something from 2016, not Plasma 5.15.3. The version was messed up when this report was moved.

Comment 2 Bug Janitor Service 2023-08-26 03:45:17 UTC

Dear Bug Submitter,

This bug has been in NEEDSINFO status with no change for at least
15 days. Please provide the requested information as soon as
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Comment 3 Bug Janitor Service 2023-09-10 03:45:14 UTC

This bug has been in NEEDSINFO status with no change for at least
30 days. The bug is now closed as RESOLVED > WORKSFORME
due to lack of needed information.

For more information about our bug triaging procedures please read the
wiki located here:
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