Clipboard behavior

[Doug Wyatt]

Duane Clark wrote:
> *This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(r) Pro*
> Is there something in a normal stock Fedora 7 system that messes with 
> the clipboard? I have a program (nedit) that often puts out messages 
> saying that it cannot copy anything to the clipboard because it is 
> locked. I have been using nedit on redhat 6-9 and FC4, and have never 
> seen that message on any of those systems.
> 
> This is with nedit compiled against lesstif. On all the previous OS 
> versions, I compiled against the real motif. However, when I compile 
> nedit against openmotif on F7, attempting to copy causes nedit to crash, 
> so that is even worse than occasionally getting a locked clipboard.
> 
> Perhaps there is something that has changed in the X server, because if 
> I login to the FC4 system remotely from my F7 system, and run nedit, 
> then I get the same symptoms. That is, an nedit which is compiled 
> against openmotif on FC4 and which works fine when run locally on FC4, 
> will crash when running remotely on the F7 server when attempting to copy.
> 
> By the way, copy/paste with the mouse select/middle button works fine, 
> and never complains of a locked clipboard.
> 

Does the version of nedit taken from an F7 repository have the
same problems?