what the f*ck (pardon my french) - calling up klipper crashes/restarts X

Valent Turkovic valent.turkovic at gmail.com
Thu Mar 15 15:24:15 UTC 2007


On 3/14/07, Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> I've modified the subject line, you're more likely to get help if it
> mentions what your problem is.
>
>
> Tim:
> >> Something crashing X:  You might have to tell us what other applications
> >> you've been running at the time.  I don't use KDE or Klipper, so I have
> >> no idea about any problems with it.
>
> Valent Turkovic
> > I use gnome, but I can't work without proper clipboard manager - ie. klipper.
> >
> > This happened to me more in FC5 but it also happened a few times now
> > in FC6 and it is always when I try to full up klipper menu CTRL-ALT-V
>
> Okay, just fired it up to see how it works.  I'm still thinking about my
> prior suggestion.  Can you try another keyboard, you might have one that
> isn't working well when you press three keys at once.  And just for
> experimenting sake, change the key-combination used to call it up.
> Klipper has preferences that let you do that.
>

This happened of 2 different laptops, so we can guess that hardware
error is out of the question.

I can try to change klipper preferences and see what happens.
But to me that still doesn't answer the question how ANY combination
of keys can restart X! That is a serious bug!




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