Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 75905
Keyboard cut/paste ceases working
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:47:33 EDT
Description of Problem: After a while, keyboard driven cut and paste simply stop working. Menu driven cut and paste continue to work. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gnome-terminal-2.0.1-5 How Reproducible: Floating bug, not easily reproducible. You have to work in default setting for 10-15 minutes before it fails. Using clipboard to transfer data to/from diffirect applications seem to trip it sooner, but no guarantees. Happens to me every hour or so. Steps to Reproduce: 0. All GNOME settings are default (including Windows-style focus). 1. Just work as usual. Eventually <Shift><Control><C> and <Shift><Control><V> stop working. Actual Results: <Shift><Control><C> stop working. Expected Results: Everything continuing to work as usual. Additional Information: Try to do both <Control><Shift><C> and <Shift><Conftol><C>. If selection pasting worked, it would not be that big a deal. But as it is, the stupid terminal is barely useable.
I have zero theories on this one.
This seems to happen after the selection was taken with double-click (not every time, of course). I cannot be sure, but it appears never to be a problem if selection was taken with down-drag-up. Also, my laptop has a touchpad, so double-click is virtually guaranteed not to have a pointer movement between clicks. Hope this helps.
I have found more cut and paste weirdness..... mostly intermitent, see below. 1.) copying/pasting between multiple gnome-terminal windows using just the mouse rarely works. There are times when it will work consistantly, most of time it does not work at all. 2.) copying/pasting in the same window w/ just the mouse works only about 75% of the time. I have seen this on several machines and I don't have this problem with other apps so I don't think its unintended mouse movement between clicks. 3.) copy/paste between tabs is the same as #2 I almost always use the mouse for copy/paste operations in X apps. I have noticed it never works 100% of the time. Perhaps it is just a bit too sensitive to mouse movement between clicks. Gnome-terminal in 8.0 seems to have the most problems with this. On the occations I use the keyboard cut/paste, I have noticed similar behavior to what is described above. I am willing to rebuild gnome-terminal and attach gdb to it and use it for a while if you think that will help. :)
For problems when using the mouse, my guess is you're just seeing the bug where clicking a terminal will unselect any existing selections, even if you don't click-and-drag.
I would predict fixed in newer vte, as many things have been fixed up. But could use verification.
Broken copying after double-click is definitely fixed in 0.10.10-1 (Phoebe2). Intermittent copying did not occur so far either. From my side, this can be closed. Mike?
Closing...