GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 510205
Clipboard is erased after closing Gnucash
Last modified: 2018-06-29 21:59:41 UTC
Please describe the problem: when using clipboard to copy some text from Gnucash under Linux, the text stored in the clipboard will be erased if I close Gnucash. A lot of programs does have that bug right now and this is due to a recent change in the Freedesktop Clipboard Manager specification which you can find here : http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/ClipboardManager Steps to reproduce: 1. Open Gnucash 2. Copy some text from Gnucash ( description of a transaction, for example ) 3. Paste that text in a word editor, it works 4. Close Gnucash, and then paste that text again in a word editor Actual results: Nothing is pasted Expected results: The clipboard should still contain the copied text and paste should be successful. Does this happen every time? Yes Other information: Linux Ubuntu Hardy 8.04 Alpha 3 gnucash : 2.2.1-1ubuntu6
Firefox 3 suffers the same bug. Other information: Linux Ubuntu Intrepid 8.10
I can confirm that clipboard is erased after closing programs (GnuCash,Firefox, Gimp) of this behavior on the following programs. Can the bugsquad please test, confirm and mark this as a high priority bug as it is affecting multiple programs and many users. GnuCash: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=510205 Mozilla Firefox: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=311340 The Gimp: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=510230 Ubuntu bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/21202 Spec: http://standards.freedesktop.org/clipboards-spec/clipboards-0.1.txt May also be related: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=564165 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/27430
Confirmed for gnucash 2.2.9 (and gimp 2.6, but I'll file a separate bug). (while Firefox is fixed - but again, it has nothing to do here) I put "priority" and "importance" back to normal since on one hand this may be a rare problem, but on the other it can cause some (presumably minor) dataloss if a user is trusting on Ctrl+C to keep something he deleted in the meanwhile.
Fixed in r21918 in trunk, r21889 in 2.4 (to be released in 2.4.10).
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