problems with KDE

[Lester M Petrie]

On Fri, 2007-07-06 at 10:59 -0700, Wayne Lydecker wrote:
> I've been having problems with running Gnome in two virtual
> windows recently on my RHEL 4 system (with latest patches).
> I switched one of the windows to KDE, but now I'm getting
> strange behavior out of nedit:
> 
> 1)  replace/find replaces the current highlighted text
>      and finds the next instance of the string to find,
>      but does not leave the string highlighted for the
>      next replace.
> 
> 2)  ctrl-9/0 shifts the highlighted text one character,
>      and then deselects the text.  It should keep the
>      text highlighted.
> 
> I'm using a recent version, not a solid release:
> 
> 5.6 [Under Development] HEAD
> May 29, 2007
> 
>       Built on: Linux, 386, GNU C
>       Built at: May 29 2007, 08:28:46
>     With Motif: (Untested) 2.3.0 [@(#)Motif Version 2.3.0]
> Running Motif: 2.3 [unknown]
>         Server: The X.Org Foundation 70101000
>         Visual: 24-bit TrueColor (ID 0x23, Default)
>         Locale: en_US
> 
> These problems are so obvious that I'm probably the only
> one that has seen them.  Do I have a KDE setting that is
> causing this?  I don't have much experience with KDE.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -- Wayne.

This looks like a problem that came up last Oct. I'm copying in the
first part of a response that seems to fix this problem.

On Mon, 2006-10-16 at 12:54 -0400, Carlie J. Coats wrote:
> I've just installed Mandriva 2007/x86_64 on a new IBM Intellistation A
> (dual Opteron 280's), and find I'm having a problem with commands like
> "Shift Left" and "Shift Right" in NEdit:  when I select a set of
lines,
> and do the shift -- once! -- and the selection disappears, so that one
> has to re-select in order to shift more than one column (and that just
> one column at a time).
> 
> This not only happens with a local "nedit" but also with remote
> "nedit"s -- in this case,

There was a thread about similiar behavior back at the end of June. The
problem turned out to be related to "klipper", with the following fixing
the problem for me.

On 06/28/2006 07:15:29 PM, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
Ok solved. It had to be something related to both KDE and selections.

That klipper thing is doing harakiri with other application's
selections. Instead of dumping klipper into the bin, it is sufficient to
go into klipper's "General" configuration tab, and to disable the
"Prevent empty clipboard" setting.

http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=129994