Package: klipper Version: 4:4.2.4-1+b1 Severity: normal
A few weeks ago cut'n'paste in Eterm stopped working after a general upgrade and I initially ascribed the problem in my mind as being caused by the move to libc 2.9 and recent Eterms. That was cemented by the observation that cut'n'paste works fine still in xterm and pterm. It's just that the cut part from Eterm has stopped working. Unless one holds the shift key down and never lets it up, the paste is empty when one comes to do it, and the highlighted text becomes unhighlighted as the shift is released. Releasing the shift key even for a millisecond empties the cut buffer and unhighlights the grabbed text, so that the paste puts down nothing. I was wrong in my initial assessment. I've since run the problem down with a series of tests. All works fine in/from Eterm if run under a window system other than kde (e.g. just twm). If the "good" window management is killed and KDE is started, the problem returns even in an Eterm that has been running throughout. Checking the sequence of processes that KDE starts, klipper looked the likely source from the observed timing. Indeed, killing klipper reverts a running Eterm to normal behaviour, and subsequently started Eterms behave properly too. Starting klipper again reverts the behaviour of running Eterms to the improper mode. So that's it. Klipper is stealing Eterm's cut buffer when the shift key is released. This never used to happen. I guess it's a KDE 4 thing and I suppose I have inadvertently recently upgraded to KDE 4 with my standard upgrade! Curious that xterm and pterm are unaffected. I'd be grateful if you could liase with the author/maintainer of Eterm to work out what's going on. He's Muammar El Khatib, muammarelkha...@gmail.com. I've talked to him about this and he's friendly! Peter Breuer -- System Information: LSB Version: core-2.0-ia32:core-2.0-noarch:core-3.0-ia32:core-3.0-noarch:core-3.1-ia32:core-3.1-noarch:core-3.2-ia32:core-3.2-noarch:cxx-3.0-ia32:cxx-3.0-noarch:cxx-3.1-ia32:cxx-3.1-noarch:cxx-3.2-ia32:cxx-3.2-noarch:desktop-3.1-ia32:desktop-3.1-noarch:desktop-3.2-ia32:desktop-3.2-noarch:graphics-2.0-ia32:graphics-2.0-noarch:graphics-3.0-ia32:graphics-3.0-noarch:graphics-3.1-ia32:graphics-3.1-noarch:graphics-3.2-ia32:graphics-3.2-noarch:languages-3.2-ia32:languages-3.2-noarch:multimedia-3.2-ia32:multimedia-3.2-noarch:printing-3.2-ia32:printing-3.2-noarch:qt4-3.1-ia32:qt4-3.1-noarch Distributor ID: Ubuntu (nah .. that's what it was a year ago! It's debian unstable) Description: Ubuntu 8.04.1 Release: 8.04 Codename: hardyArchitecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-11 (SMP w/1 CPU core; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash-static Versions of packages klipper depends on: ii kdebase-runtime 4:4.2.4-1 runtime components from the offici ii kdelibs5 4:4.2.4-1 core libraries for all KDE 4 appli ii libc6 2.9-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libqt4-dbus 4.5.1-2 Qt 4 D-Bus module ii libqtcore4 4.5.1-2 Qt 4 core module ii libqtgui4 4.5.1-2 Qt 4 GUI module ii libstdc++6 4.4.0-10 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libx11-6 2:1.2.1-1 X11 client-side library ii libxfixes3 1:4.0.3-2 X11 miscellaneous 'fixes' extensio ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-14 compression library - runtime klipper recommends no packages. klipper suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-qt-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
