*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 11334 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/11334
On Sun, 23 Aug 2009, mac_v wrote:
> *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 11334 ***
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/11334
>
> Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
> Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a
> duplicate of bug 11334 so it is being marked as such. Please look at the
> other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can
> provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally,
> any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other
> report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.
after looking at bug report 11334 and the following thread it's not clear
to me whether this is a duplicate or not.
BR11334 seems to involve failure of trying to copying from one window,
closing that window, and pasting into a second window. but AFAICT this is
normal X Window behavior and the discussion centers around whether or not
to treat it as a bug.
my problems have CONSISTENTLY involved copying from one window to another
with both windows still open, and includes cases involving two windows in
the same instance of the same application. maybe i'm misunderstanding how
X works, but AFAICT normal X behavior should support this and it's a bug.
(examples: i've had problems with copying a text string from a web page in
firefox to the google's input field in an other tab in the same firefox
instance, or an url from a web page in epiphany to epiphany's address box.)
if you determine that this and BR11334 should be dealt with together please
feel free to add the observations in this message.
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afterthought:
call it a bug, a design flaw, a wish list item, or what have you, it's
embarrassing that this is even an issue after how many years of gnome
development?
passing data easily from one user program to another has been a traditional
strength of *X style operating systems, and you'd exect a *X desktop not
to have just a decent clipboard, but to have a really cool clip board.
like maybe able to hold multiple values? like maybe backed up by one or
more files so it (or they) can be big and persistent ?
> ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 11334
> Copy-Paste doesn't work if the source is closed before the paste
>
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> Intermittent problems with copy and paste
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/417758
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> Status in One Hundred Paper Cuts: New
>
> Bug description:
> Intermittent problems with copying text from web browsers and pasting
> elsewhere. First noticed problem while using Epiphany. First thought I
> might be highlighting and forgetting to copy (a mistake I occasionally do
> make) but ruled that out after being very careful and double checking. Then
> thought it might be an application problem so stopped using Epiphany but have
> since had the same problem with Firefox.
>
> So far I haven't noticed this problem with other types of applications but as
> it's intermittent and I've been using browsers more than anything else lately
> it could be the system clip board and I've only had problems while using
> browsers just by coincidence.
>
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Intermittent problems with copy and paste
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/417758
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