Bug 1089695

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*** Bug 1229371 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

This is still an issue in F22. The upstream issue hasn't been fixed for years. It would be great if this can be fixed in the Fedora RPM since the app itself works ok with the following patch:

$ cat autokey-gtk-rhbz1089695.patch 
--- autokey-0.90.4/src/lib/interface.py	2012-05-15 07:27:57.000000000 -0400
+++ autokey-0.90.4/src/lib/interface-b.py	2015-06-08 10:49:04.269038660 -0400
@@ -534,7 +534,7 @@
             text = self.clipBoard.wait_for_text()
             self.__savedClipboard = ''
             if text is not None: self.__savedClipboard = text
-            self.clipBoard.set_text(string.encode("utf-8"))
+            self.clipBoard.set_text(string.encode("utf-8"), len=-1)
             Gdk.threads_leave()
 
     def begin_send(self):

There's probably other areas where this should be fixed, but this patch fixed my immediate issue in BZ# 1229371.

I'm building a COPR with the package that includes the patch here:
https://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/cwawak/autokey

Created attachment 1036421 [details]
Patch to fix crash.

Bug still seems there in F23. What's needed to get this fixed?

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This issue still affects Fedora 25.

----
2017-01-04 14:34:04,683 DEBUG - interface - Sending string: u'/*\n * Copyright (C) 2005-2014 Red Hat, Inc.\n * All rights reserved.\n *\n * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify\n * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by\n * the Free Software Foundation version 2 of the License.\n *\n * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,\n * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of\n * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the\n * GNU General Public License for more details.\n *\n * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License\n * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,\n * 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA\n */\n\n'
2017-01-04 14:34:04,685 ERROR - interface - Error in X event loop thread
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/autokey/interface.py", line 116, in __eventLoop
    method(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/autokey/interface.py", line 500, in __sendStringClipboard
    self.__fillClipboard(string)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/autokey/interface.py", line 537, in __fillClipboard
    self.clipBoard.set_text(string.encode("utf-8"))
TypeError: Gtk.Clipboard.set_text() takes exactly 3 arguments (2 given)
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This puts AutoKey into a bad state and upon next attempt to auto complete, the keyboard hangs.

The apparent fix was provided in attachment 1036421 [details] and seems reasonable to me. Is this package no longer maintained? It looks like the upstream has not seen a release since 2012.

Additionally, someone has ported to Python 3. 0.93.7 contains this fix as well. Seems like it was introduced as part of the Python 3 port in https://github.com/autokey-py3/autokey/commit/7bbb17c634b65cbc417b1d56e862ea3f94a27b83. Problem is that the port appears to be missing the GTK specific launcher autokey-gtk.

If we can not get this fixed, I suggest that the package be removed as it can break GNOME if installed and clipboard feature is used.

autokey-0.94.0-1.fc27 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 27. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-ff5a888f5a

autokey-0.94.0-1.fc28 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 28. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-0eec817e5f

autokey-0.94.0-1.fc27 has been pushed to the Fedora 27 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
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