Klipper middle mouse select and paste fails sometimes

[R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar]

In Kubuntu 9.10 using KDE 4.3.5 the middle mouse select and paste function fails in kate or kile. This seems to happen randomly and is very frustrating. Klipper has been configures to synchronize contents fo clipboard and selection, and yet this synchronization is absent. There are tell-tale blank lines in the clipboard when this happens.

Other information:

apt-cache policy klipper
klipper:
  Installed: 4:4.3.5-0ubuntu1~karmic1
  Candidate: 4:4.3.5-0ubuntu1~karmic1
  Version table:
 *** 4:4.3.5-0ubuntu1~karmic1 0
        500 http://ftp.iinet.net.au karmic-backports/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     4:4.3.2-0ubuntu7.1 0
        500 http://ftp.iinet.net.au karmic-updates/main Packages
     4:4.3.2-0ubuntu7 0
        500 http://ftp.iinet.net.au karmic/main Packages

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Jan 29 16:10:16 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/kdeinit4
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Package: kdelibs-bin 4:4.3.5-0ubuntu1~karmic1
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_AU:en
 LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-17.54-generic
SourcePackage: kde4libs
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-17-generic x86_64

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

Hi there!

Thanks for reporting this bug! Your bug seems to be a problem with the KDE program itself, and not with our KDE packages. While we appreciate your issue, it would be better if it was tracked at https://bugs.kde.org, so that the KDE developers can deal with this speedily and have direct communication with you as the reporter for more effective debugging.

Thanks!

[willy123 (willy123)]

Any news on this bug? Did you report it to KDE? If yes, could you please post the link to the bug report?

I clicked around a bit and found that copying from

kde-app -> kde app: fails
kde-app -> gnome-app: fails
gnome-app -> kde app: ok

I have this issue with _every_ KDE application, even when running it in gnome... However, when running a gnome-app. in KDE, the klipper works fine...