Clipboard behavior

[Duane Clark]

Doug Wyatt wrote:
> 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?
> 

I don't actually know. In fact, I had not realized it was there - I am 
so accustomed to having to compile it. I'll use that version for a few 
days and see what happens (I have not yet figured out what triggers the 
locked clipboard behavior; it only happens occasionally).