Description of problem: Making a selection in xchat kills clipboard. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): xchat-2.8.4-4.fc8.1 How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open xchat 2. Populate clipboard with a test string (e.g. do ^C somewhere) This can be done in xchat itself, or any other application. 3. Select (highlight) a different text in xchat. 4. Paste into any application (^V). The text highlighted at step 3 will come out. Actual results: Selection contents wipe clipboard. Expected results: Clipboard retains contents until the next "Copy" or "Cut" operation. Additional info: None
Confirmed. Indeed, I've noticed XChat doing strange things to the clipboard, it just never bothered me enough to report it as a bug, though I agree with you that it is one. I'm CCing the upstream author. To elaborate on this, the specification we are expecting XChat (and any other app) to follow is this one: http://standards.freedesktop.org/clipboards-spec/clipboards-0.1.txt While this is not an official standard, it is how GTK+ and Qt use the clipboard and expect it to be used, so deviating from this behavior creates inconsistencies like the one reported.
Apparently the xchat-gnome fork has patched this issue, see: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=404736 I'll see if whatever changes they made can be ported to the regular xchat.
These are the possibly relevant commit IDs: http://svn.gnome.org/viewcvs/xchat-gnome?view=revision&revision=2267 http://svn.gnome.org/viewcvs/xchat-gnome?view=revision&revision=2268 http://svn.gnome.org/viewcvs/xchat-gnome?view=revision&revision=2273 http://svn.gnome.org/viewcvs/xchat-gnome?view=revision&revision=2293 (I haven't tried to port these to fe-gtk, so I don't know if their changes are relevant or if this needs to be patched differently here.)
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This is still there in Rawhide.
Changing version to '9' as part of upcoming Fedora 9 GA. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
Stupid robots stealing Rawhide bugs... Changing back. BTW, this still happens in xchat-2.8.6-3.fc10.
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 10 development cycle. Changing version to '10'. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
This is still a problem in xchat-2.8.6-7.fc11.x86_64.
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 11 development cycle. Changing version to '11'. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
The bug is going to be 2 years old next Friday. Still present in xchat-2.8.6-11.fc12.x86_64. We're doomed, right?
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Still present in xchat-2.8.8-2.fc13.x86_64.
Still present in xchat-2.8.8-4.fc14.x86_64.
Created attachment 461916 [details] proposed fix #1
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