glipper discards binary data

[daniele rosa]

glipper "eats and discards" selection added to the clipboard if it contains binary data, breaking ordinary cut and paste for many applications.

to reproduce:
start open office, hit "show draw functions" in the toolbar on top, insert a rectangle, select it, hit CTRL+C then CTRL-V and see how the text you added to glipper most recently (instead of the rectangle) is inserted.

[Vincenzo Ciancia (vincenzo-ml)]

Daniele:

for me, it works. What exactly are you trying to copy? The background layer, for example, cannot be cut at all, only strokes can be cut and pasted.

[daniele rosa (daniele-rosa-blogs)]

Yes, I know about the background.
I am trying to copy/cut and paste strokes.

[Vincenzo Ciancia (vincenzo-ml)]

Can you descrkbe exactly what you see? Does the selection rectangle appear and then nothing is copied? Does the rectangle stay there or does it disappear immediately?

[daniele rosa (daniele-rosa-blogs)]

Sure. I draw a little line. Then, I select it using a rectangle that is big enough to include it all. Then, I proceed with copy (or cut) and paste. The rectangle is present since I drew it. To make sure there are not two overlapping objects, I move the rectangle from its original position.

[Vincenzo Ciancia (vincenzo-ml)]

I have to leave until monday. In the meantime, if you wish, you can try latest release from upstream site (xournal.sf.net), and see if bug is fixed, or contact upstream directly and ask Denis to look at this bug. Usually, when I paste things in xournal, the pasted rectangle is "shifted" a bit to the right so that the two can not overlap. In your case, it seems like the "paste" command is not pasting at all (or like if the buffer is empty). Do you use some cut and paste applet in the systray or something similar?

To compile new release do "sudo apt-get build-dep xournal" before compiling (just in case you don't know).

[daniele rosa (daniele-rosa-blogs)]

You got it. It was the applet. It's called Glipper.
If I quit it, the copy and paste work just fine.
Thanks for your help.
Daniele

[Vincenzo Ciancia (vincenzo-ml)]

Glipper probably does not recognize the type of data and silently discards it.

[Michael Nagel (nailor)]

confirming, to reproduce:
start open office, hit "show draw functions" in the toolbar on top, insert a rectangle, select it, hit CTRL+C then CTRL-V and see how the text you added to glipper most recently (instead of the rectangle) is inserted.

i suppose this is because glipper is unable to handle binary data.

PS: glipper is unmaintained: Bug #255060 , we/ubuntu should look for an alternative