GTK clipboard problems

[Behdad Esfahbod]

Yes, I can confirm this old very annoying bug.  I mainly use
gnome-terminal and epiphany, and I'm sure I have seen it in the
past month again.

On Wed, 1 Dec 2004, Warren Togami wrote:

> Since around RH7.3, I remember gtk2 applications would sometimes be
> unable to copy & paste between each other after long runtimes within a
> GNOME session.  Sometimes it would take a week of using GNOME without
> relogging for this problem to manifest.  Copying from GTK2 to kedit and
> back to GTK2 would work, but not GTK2 to GTK2.  Select and middle-click
> would also fail.  Then *something* else I do on the desktop makes the
> behavior go away, and clipboard begins working properly again.
>
> Today using FC3, I this problem still exists today.
>
> Do other people experience this problem?
>
> Is anyone aware of an upstream bug tracking this issue that has more
> substance than my useless description above?
>
> Thanks,
> Warren Togami
> wtogami at redhat.com
>
>

--behdad
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