klipper - highlighting text sometimes does not appear in Klipper

[Ying Hu]

Ubuntu 9.10 alphas 5 and 6 (and also in Ubuntu 9.04), 64-bit
Klipper, v0.9.7 (KDE 4.3.1) being used with standard Ubuntu Gnome desktop

Highlighted text (with mouse) sometimes does not appear in the clipboard history displayed in Klipper, and therefore this text cannot be pasted (middle-click paste desired, but C-p doesn't work, either). I have not found it possible to tell why it works sometimes and does not work other times. An example would be highlighting some text in Firefox to use as a title when saving a web-page.

This behavior is a _regression_ - highlight and middle-click worked fine in Ibex, then degraded in Jaunty, such that I had to try to use the very defective Glipper.

Current behavior in 9.10 alpha 6 is that if highlighted text does not appear in Klipper, highlighting same text a second time will cause it to appear and be available for middle-click pasting.

In general, highlighting into system clipboards seems to be breaking (i.e. works only sometimes, unpredictably) in Gnome in recent Ubuntus.

May have some similarities to bugs #311251, 380907 (though I do not fully get the latter's description).

[Ying Hu (yinghu37)]

I fully updated Ubuntu 2009-09-25. Klipper seemed to consistently miss the first and sometimes second highlighting attempt in, say, a Firefox webpage. Only subsequent highlighting attempts would register (of same or sometimes different text string). There was nothing [new, only previous items on clipboard] to paste if the highlighting attempt didn't work.