Bug 401762 - User unable to select text in yakuake terminal
Summary: User unable to select text in yakuake terminal
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: yakuake
Classification: Applications
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: 3.0.2
Platform: Debian stable Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Eike Hein
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Reported: 2018-12-05 09:49 UTC by Robert Pumphrey
Modified: 2020-03-08 09:15 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description Robert Pumphrey 2018-12-05 09:49:58 UTC
Start yakuake. After some days of running app, the user is unable to copy text out of the terminal.


STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Run yakuake for a while
2. Hightlight text with the mouse
3. Middle click

OBSERVED RESULT
nothing happens

EXPECTED RESULT
highlighted text should be pasted in the terminal

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Windows: not tried
MacOS:  not tried
Linux/KDE Plasma: Debian Stretch 
(available in About System)
KDE Plasma Version: 5:92
KDE Frameworks Version: 5:92
Qt Version: 

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Right-click copy menu also stops copying text to buffer.
We have used xclip to look at the buffers, and once yakuake gets into the mode where it won't copy text, then nothing appears in any of the buffers.

watch -n1 xclip -o -selection primary
watch -n1 xclip -o -selection clipboard
watch -n1 xclip -o -selection buffer-cut

We have no idea what triggers yakuake into the mode where you cannot copy text, and don't know enough to try and debug it.
Comment 1 Christoph Feck 2018-12-27 19:00:41 UTC
Would you estimate the issue happens after about 25 days? More? Less?
Comment 2 Robert Pumphrey 2019-03-14 15:28:29 UTC
(In reply to Christoph Feck from comment #1)
> Would you estimate the issue happens after about 25 days? More? Less?

Just happened again on 14th March. Last restarted X on 23rd Jan, so more like 50 days.
Comment 3 Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov (mva) 2019-03-26 14:08:19 UTC
I cat reproduce it even after a minute of Yakuake's uptime (although, after few months of KDE uptime):
1) run Yakuake
2) check that all works (select PS1, middle-click)
3) open, say, Chrome, or, maybe, Telegram, or even KMail
4) Select something
5) Paste it in yakuake
6) Try step 2 again
7) FAIL. It still pastes text from another app. Yakuake itself is unable to replace content in X selection cliproard (neither in copy clipboard).
8) (!!!) Open Konsole and repeat all the things. All works fine.
9) Say "WTF?!?".
Comment 4 Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov (mva) 2019-03-26 14:27:14 UTC
(and restarting entire KDE helps with that issue)
Comment 5 Osipov Oleg 2020-03-08 09:15:14 UTC
Happens with me too.
yakuake 3.0.5
kwin 5.14.5

The bug also affects krunner and "start" menu thing in plasma - it has a textbox and whatever was typed in cannot be copied out.

Therefore this issue is not specific to yakuake!

Doing `kwin --replace` does not fix it.