copy to clipboard from ddd broken

[santana]

Binary package hint: ddd

Ubntu Gutsy x86_64 can't copy text out of ddd. For example at a break point type "bt" in the gdb prompt and highlight the resulting text, edit->copy, change to an external text editor and paste. Nothing shows up in the editor. Copying and pasting of text inside of ddd however does work. here is the version info for the current ddd package on my system:

ddd -v
ddd: Symbol `_XmStrings' has different size in shared object, consider re-linking
GNU DDD 3.3.11 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
Copyright (C) 1995-1999 Technische Universit�t Braunschweig, Germany.
Copyright (C) 1999-2001 Universit�t Passau, Germany.
Copyright (C) 2001 Universit�t des Saarlandes, Germany.
Copyright (C) 2001-2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

Note the message regarding XmStrings. May or may not be related to this bug, however it shows that the package has not been compiled correctly.

[santana (burlen)]

This may be a feature and not a bug after all,
copy does work, although not in the usual way, from the ddd mail list:

Highlight the text with you mouse.
(*don't* click edit->copy or anything like that)

While the text is still highlighted, click on a new window with your
middle mouse button (or wheel click if a wheel mouse).

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

Is this symptom still reproducible in 8.10?

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to New. Thanks again!.

[wl2776 (wl2776)]

This symptom is reproducible in 8.10

The 'copy-paste' with me middle-click, described above, works partially for me.
I can paste the text in a terminal window or in gedit in such way, and cannot paste the text in kwrite or Krusader's embedded editor.

$ ddd -v
ddd: Symbol `_XmStrings' has different size in shared object, consider re-linking
GNU DDD 3.3.11 (i486-pc-linux-gnu)
Copyright (C) 1995-1999 Technische Universit�t Braunschweig, Germany.
Copyright (C) 1999-2001 Universit�t Passau, Germany.
Copyright (C) 2001 Universit�t des Saarlandes, Germany.
Copyright (C) 2001-2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

[Dave Gilbert (ubuntu-treblig)]

I've just tried this on the build on Quantal (3.3.12-3) and it's still very broken.

It sometimes lets you paste into something else (tried both xterm and konsole) but it's never the last thing you highlighted with the mouse, and if you use edit->copy it sometimes changes what is pasted elsewhere, but is also apparently never the thing that you just highlighted.