https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=370732
Bug ID: 370732
Summary: klipper faulty behaviour when launched twice (erratic
interaction with clipboard/input)
Product: klipper
Version: 5.8.0
Platform: Other
OS: Linux
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: NOR
Component: plasma-widget
Assignee: mgraess...@kde.org
Reporter: chaboiss...@bigfoot.com
I've been struggling with a strange/erratic behaviour when inputing data in a
program (in this case, it was grisbi but it could be with other programs as
well) to finally discover it was klipper's interaction that causes some buggy
interaction with the clipboard
in grisbi, one as to enter values in successive input fields and the symptom I
had was that every time I had drop-down lists with a pre-selected value, this
value that normally stays selected/highlighted just got unselected after a very
short time (usually tenths of a seconds)
that particular behaviour was very disturbing to effectively use that
particular software
and after digging a bit, I discovered that 2 instances of klipper was launched
(and both appeared in the system tray with few differences between the two)
one was launched through the plasmashell program (I found it with lsof that
relate the pid to the klipper.mo file)
and the other one was launch with the klipper binary (/usr/bin/klipper)
and both instances show different menus: for instance, only the latter (the
real klipper process) can be stopped with the "Quit" through the menu
so, once I managed to stop the klipper program, everything was back to normal
it seems to me that the clipboard interaction is so buggy when those 2 klipper
are launch, that it would be important to avoid such situation, maybe by
forbidding /usr/bin/klipper altogether, or at least to test when launch that
another instance is not already interacting with the clipboard
Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. check that klipper is already launched through plasmashell (lsof | grep
klipper)
2. launch /usr/bin/klipper (it should not be running)
3. use a software that interacts heavily with clipboard and proposes a
pre-selected drop-down list (in my example, grisbi is a very good candidate,
but I could not find another one)
Actual Results:
pre-selected fields just got unselected very quickly, making it hard to type
another value, thus, by typing something else it gets appends at the end of the
existing
Expected Results:
the normal behaviour would be that it stays selected, hence allowing easy
replacement of the value
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