I have marked bug #1027 as a duplicate of this one. Bug #1027 have some comments on the choice of building with Lesstif or OpenMotif. I know almost nothing, but I was under the feeling that when Ctrl-C is pressed, nedit window is sometimes loosing focus when compiled with Lesstif.
** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 1027 Keyboard input not accepted after copying selection with Control-C -- Ctrl-C / Ctrl-V copy and paste not working https://launchpad.net/bugs/54068 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs