Comment 9 for bug 389262

> Re bug #296778: do you use a clipboard manager that could interfere with
> Inkscapes either internal handling or exchange with the system
>clipboard?
Although it's related to a different bug: no, I'm not using any clipboard manager. I don't know if gdb could interfere with the clipboard transfer handling. Is it something related to a sort of clipboard transfer failure (so it's "downgraded" to raster)?

> If it's a platform-independant bug as you suggest, there
> ought to be more reports/confirms - the user base on XP is probably much
> larger than on OS X.
I'm not so sure about that: I've already reported other bugs that I'm still wondering why nobody did before me. I suppose it's related to how Inkscape is used so one finds a bug that others don't care or don't even encounter; or maybe they simply don't consider it so critical to worth being reported. And in this particular case it happens only under gdb (i.e. it's more difficult to notice but should be easier to track). One good example of this is the current app's path issue: it's sitting there since a lot and coming out only now (maybe: it's a matter of priorities, also).

I'm not a developer too and unfortunately I don't have time to dig into this issue to understand where it comes from: just seeing the same effects makes me think the cause could be the same too. It was just a hint. I hope it's so: one fix for two bugs = less work to do :)