Nedit & KDE loss of selection problems

[Daniel Eischen]

On Tue, 31 Jul 2007, Joerg Fischer wrote:

> Daniel Eischen wrote:
>
>> Has there been any more news on what's to blame?
>
> I think there have been several more reports about the problem, and
> folks were told to turn off that klipper option.
>
> Your question seems to refer to the kde bug entry which is considered
> as invalid by the kde folks. I don't use kde (icewm + roxfiler is much
> better ;-) and never noticed this bug report - I just refered you to
> the post, because it tells you how to solve the problem.
>
> Now, for the kde folks clipboard and the primary selection seem to be
> synonyms, and I'm already lost at this point. They claim further that
> nedit would sometimes not send the clipboard, which must be the
> primary selection actually, and then the 'prevent empty clipboard'
> option of klipper falls back on the last known clipboard content --
> thereby thankfully deselecting things in nedit.

Could it be that a clipboard selection event (or whatever it is
called) is generated every time the text is moved?  And for NEdit,
the second event is a noop because the selected text hasn't changed;
it has only moved.  As a result, nothing gets (re)copied to the
clipboard.

Just guessing...  If there were a small program to reproduce this
bug, we could send it to open-motif or klipper maintainers.  It
wouldn't necessarily need to be visual, just some automated way
of demonstrating the bug.

-- 
DE