Cut & Paste from KDE apps fails

[rfehren]

In Kubuntu 9.10, cut&paste stopped working for me between KDE and Non-KDE applications. To be more precise: I am talking about the standard X11 cut&paste mechanism where you select with the left button of the mouse, and paste with the middle button. The effect is pretty strange. Best example is from konsole: I can cut&paste between different konsoles but nut cut in a konsole and paste e.g. in firefox or emacs. On the other hand, I can cut in Emacs/Firefox and paste in the konsole or other KDE applications. So it is pasting out of KDE to Non-KDE applications which is not working. However even pasting to a different KDE application from say konsole doesn't work anymore. This problem started after the upgrade from jaunty to karmic. To make things even more complicated: Sometimes things work allright for some time after a fresh login, and sometimes it doesn't work right from the start.

I tried different KDE versions from the backport repo up to the current 4.3.5, but none of them work. One slight complication of my setup: I am working in a x2go (version 3.0.1).

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Feb 8 13:54:47 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/kdeinit4
Package: kdelibs-bin 4:4.3.5-0ubuntu1~karmic1
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=de_DE.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!