[Fwd: Challenges with nedit in (k)ubuntu]

[Eddy De Greef]

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Challenges with nedit in (k)ubuntu
> Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2006 14:12:12 -0500
> From: Timothy Miller <theosib at gmail.com>
> To: Eddy De Greef <eddy_de_greef at scarlet.be>
> References: <9871ee5f0612010909y51f59d8cp12049f2aab1ffe61 at mail.gmail.com>
> 
> I apologize in advance if this is a redundant post.  I'm not
> subscribed to this list.  There has been a long standing problem with
> nedit (by far my favorite editor) under Ubuntu (I'm using Kubuntu).
> I'll begin with a few references:
> 
> https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/nedit/+bug/54068
> https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/nedit/+bug/1027
> 
> What we're observing is that nedit will randomly and permanently cease
> to perform copy/paste operations.  Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V/Ctrl-X and the
> corresponding menu entries silently do nothing (no operation peformed,
> and no error message).   Closing all nedit windows (to close down the
> nedit server) USUALLY fixes the problem, but not always, and not for
> very long.  We think there's a bug in lesstif that's causing this, but
> we're not sure.  The evidence is that if you link nedit with
> OpenMotif, it does not exhibit this problem.

We are aware of various clipboard locking problems with some versions of 
Lesstif and OpenMotif, but to the best of our knowledge, the problems 
are in (some versions of) those libraries. An often common factor is 
that KDE's clipboard manager (Klipper) is monopolizing the clipboard, 
which seems to increase the likelyhood that something goes wrong.

In our current CVS version we take some countermeasures, but it is not 
known whether they have any effect as the problem is not easily 
reproducable.

Eddy