Comments on: Fixing Copy-Paste issues on Eclipse and KDE

By: ligi

ligi — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 14:27:52 +0000

Thanx a lot for this investigation – the uncheck solution works very fine for me!

By: kipper

kipper — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:20:26 +0000

Awesome. Thanks for investigating this. I’m happy with the workaround #2. :)

KDE4
Eclipse Galileo

By: Luca Provenzani

Luca Provenzani — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:53:19 +0000

Fantastic solution:uncheck ‘Prevent empty clipboard‘ in Klipper’s settings!!
Thank you a lot!

By: freeman

freeman — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:51:32 +0000

I have turned off klipper but it still happens:(

By: Esben Mose Hansen

Esben Mose Hansen — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 20:08:16 +0000

(Klipper sort-of-maintainer here)

It is most probably because Eclipse is one of the programs that empties the clipboard before claiming it. If that is case, the best solution would be for Eclipse to stop doing that… at best, it is unnecessary chatter via. the X protocol. It might also introduce a race condition, especially in these multicore days, as you probably see with Klipper here.

The bit about Klipper enabling cross-app cut&paste functionality is completely wrong; it has nothing to do with Klipper and is a basic X feature, with some additional features in the XFixes extensions.

Klipper does 3 things:
1. Provide a searchable history
2. Provide optional sync. between SELECTION and PRIMARY (that is, the mouse selection and the good old clipboard)
3. Optionally saves clipboard data if the owning application exists (that is the prevent empty feature)
4. Finally, klipper can perform various actions from the clipboard, e.g. start a browser if the a link is selected.

Hope that clears up some points. Sorry about the Monty P. reference.

Of course, it might be something completely different.

By: Josh

Josh — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:37:34 +0000

You just saved my sanity and what little hair I have left (from me pulling it out)!

Thank you thank you thank you!!

By: pgraham

pgraham — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 14:31:51 +0000

Hey thanks, this is great. I’m still noticing some minor issues like the last couple of characters being left off when I combine mouse selecting with -v but other than that is works great! I can now actually trust that when I copy something it will actually get copied.

By: brecke

brecke — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 10:39:13 +0000

many many thanks, this bug has been driving me nuts…

*puts down the gun*

By: Bart van Deenen

Bart van Deenen — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 11:22:49 +0000

Thanks dude!!!! :-)
Was driving me nuts.

By: Peter

Peter — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 10:01:31 +0000

Thanks for this solution. I’m sure I would have had RSI within a month from hitting Ctrl+C like a machine gun all day.