Wrong Clipboard Item Promoted

[Lonnie Lee Best]

I don't have the exact steps to reproduce this behavior, but any long-time user of clip-it knows VERY well what I'm about to say it true.

Too often, when you select (from clipit) a previously copied item from the list it provides, it promote the wrong item to your computer's clipboard memory (AND NOT THE ITEM YOU SELECTED).

I've been putting up with this BUG for years now, I'm finally reporting it and hoping that someone will go into that code and figure out why this annoying behavior it occurring.

I'm quite sure you can reproduce this behavior by simply having a 10 minute session of copying and pasting various text. After you've copied 10 or so items, try to use clip it to promote (to your clip-board memory) an item you copied about 5 or 10 turns back". You find that the wrong item gets put into the clipboard's memory and you'll have to select it from clip-it twice before it retrieves the actual item you selected both times.

I hope some kind soul combs through the code and figures out why this happens. This is one of those bugs that you just put up with hoping it finally gets fixed, but like I said, I've been enduring this for YEARS, and it never gets fixed.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 19.10
Package: clipit 1.4.4+git20190202-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.3.0-18.19-generic 5.3.1
Uname: Linux 5.3.0-18-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu8
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Mon Oct 21 01:48:55 2019
InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-10-19 (1 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 19.10 "Eoan Ermine" - Release amd64 (20191017)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: clipit
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.