[Konsole-devel] [Bug 201242] New: selection in konsole cannot be copied to other programs

[Steven Hirsch]

On Thu, 23 Jul 2009, Kevin Range wrote:

> When I select some text in konsole, I cannot paste it anywhere with a middle
> click as I used to.  The only way that cutting and pasting works now in konsole
> is is I select "copy" from the edit menu, and then I can "Edit->Paste" in
> another konsole.  But pasting into other programs (emacs, Firefox, konqueror)
> does not work.  Selections from konsole do not appear in the klipper menu
> either.

Selection has been a bit flakey for me as well, but I've discovered that 
exiting and restarting my X session (sometimes takes a few rounds) will 
put it in a state where it starts working.

Regarding selections not appearing in the klipper menu, this seems chronic 
in KDE4 and not specific to konsol.  I see it constantly with any and all 
applications.  Sometimes I have to select text in, e.g. xterm or rxvt 
several times before it shows up in klipper.

There's much that I like about KDE4, but some of these basic operational 
glitches need to be taken a bit more seriously than they seem to be.



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