Cut-and-Paste Buffer Disappearing

[Mike Massonnet]

2010/10/23 Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com>:
> On Sat, 23 Oct 2010, Mike Massonnet wrote:
>  The application is _not_ closed. When I press the middle button (actually,
> both left and right simultaneously) I get a white line flashing on the
> console, but that's it. When I go back to the original window the selected
> text is still highlighted.
>
>  I suppose that I did not explain clearly enough.

Then I suppose you are going to have to hunt the bit that is causing
this issue. It's the first time I actually read such an issue, hence I
can't help much.

  * Try to log into an X session without starting Xfce[1]. Can you
reproduce the problem?
    - Well you said it's not always reproducible so this is going to
be tricky. And if you don't enjoy installing another desktop it's not
gonna be fun either...
  * Is the mouse configuration in Xorg causing this issue?
    - The latest xorg versions need practically no line inside the
xorg.conf file.
  * Are you running xfce4-clipman-plugin? If yes remove it.
    - I'm already out of ideas here.

If you get the problem to reproduce again, you can verify with a test
program if the text selection is working correctly. Download the
following program:

  http://git.xfce.org/panel-plugins/xfce4-clipman-plugin/plain/tests/test_targets.c

and compile it with the command

  cc `pkg-config --cflags --libs gtk+-2.0` test_targets.c

and run it with the options

  ./a.out -s -p

While the program is running, it will display the content of the text
selection, if it is not working than something is f*d up, and I
couldn't think that the problem comes from Xfce, except if you are
able to never produce this issue outside Xfce.

> Rich


HTH.
Kind Regards
-- 
Mike