in 9.04 for AMD64, nedit will not copy to clipboard

[Joe Perkins]

Binary package hint: nedit

1. Copy worked under 8.10 on this machine.
2. Version is stock 1:5.5-3. Also tried nedit's 1:5 with same result.
3. Expected to be able to copy and paste in nedit.

4. Can copy using say gedit, and then paste in nedit. Just cannot copy in nedit

Incidentally, File Open did not work every time in 8.10, but seems to work in 9.04 - yea!
---
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: nedit 1:5.6~cvs20081118-7
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.36-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Tags: lucid
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic x86_64
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip floppy fuse kvm libvirtd lpadmin plugdev video

[Alexandre Pineau (alexandre-pineau)]

Package: nedit
Version: 1:5.4-1
Severity: normal
Followup-For: Bug #217121

 Hello,

I cannot reproduce here, but I only test copy and paste feature between GTK
applications for now. Maybe it's a bug related to the clipboard management
of KDE.

 Alexandre Pineau

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux estello 2.2.20 #1 Sat Oct 12 19:31:59 CEST 2002 i586
Locale: LANG=fr_FR@euro, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR@euro

Versions of packages nedit depends on:
ii lesstif2 1:0.93.94-2 OSF/Motif 2.1 implementation relea
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libice6 4.3.0-5 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libsm6 4.3.0-5 X Window System Session Management
ii libx11-6 4.3.0-5 X Window System protocol client li
ii libxext6 4.3.0-5 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii libxp6 4.3.0-5 X Window System printing extension
ii libxt6 4.3.0-5 X Toolkit Intrinsics
ii xlibs 4.3.0-5 X Window System client libraries m

-- no debconf information

[Alexandre Pineau (alexandre-pineau)]

 Hello,

>To reproduce:

>Work with other applications copying and pasting information from
>various other apps (from Konqueror into Emacs, for instance).
>Start Nedit, type some text.
>Select that text, copy it, and paste it a few times.
>Go back and write in some text again. Copy that, and paste it a few
>times.
>By the time you have gone through this, somewhere in the middle you
>are very likely to have pasted something random that was copied from a
>previous application.

I have reproduced it under KDE 3.2.3 with Nedit 5.4 with Ctrl C - Ctrl V.
I can't reproduce it if I use the middle button of the mouse (X buffer?).
I can't also reproduce it under xfce3 (GTK application) even if I use
Ctrl C - Ctrl V.

So now I'm quite sure that this issue is related to clipboard management
of KDE (I CC the KDE debian mailing list)

-- alex
Il vente, c'est le vent de la mer qui nous tourmente. - Pierre Mac Orlan
http://alexandre.pineau.free.fr/

[Thorsten Haude (debian-thorstenhau)]

Hi Alexandre,

I can reproduce #217121 with Sarge's NEdit and, more importantly, with
DDD. PRIMARY (mouse selection) does not seem to be affected.

This seems to be a Lesstif problem again, I have already submitted a
bug report for Lesstif:

https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=993412&group_id=8596&atid=108596

What setup do you use on the machine where you could not reproduce it?
Is DDD installed on this machine? What is 'nedit -v' on this machine?

KDE seems to be innocent.

Thorsten
--
Emacs is for people who desperately want to get drunk,
but feel guilty doing so without a reason.
    - Miles O'Neal

[Alexandre Pineau (alexandre-pineau)]

On Sun, 18 Jul 2004 21:47:36 +0200
Thorsten Haude <email address hidden> wrote:

> Hi Alexandre,
>
> I can reproduce #217121 with Sarge's NEdit and, more importantly, with
> DDD. PRIMARY (mouse selection) does not seem to be affected.
>
> This seems to be a Lesstif problem again, I have already submitted a
> bug report for Lesstif:

Yes it seems, I can't reproduce it with Nedit build with Open Motif.
So...

> What setup do you use on the machine where you could not reproduce it?

With Sarge's Nedit, I can reproduce it under KDE, but not under xfce3
(ctrl C Ctrl V from Firefox to Abiword)

> Is DDD installed on this machine?

?

> KDE seems to be innocent.

Yes, but I don't know if there is no difference between a copy - paste
under KDE and a copy - past under gnome.

 Alexandre

--
Il vente, c'est le vent de la mer qui nous tourmente. - Pierre Mac Orlan
http://alexandre.pineau.free.fr/

[Thorsten Haude (debian-thorstenhau)]

Hi,

* Alexandre Pineau wrote (2004-07-18 22:37):
>Thorsten Haude <email address hidden> wrote:
>> What setup do you use on the machine where you could not reproduce it?
>
>With Sarge's Nedit, I can reproduce it under KDE, but not under xfce3
>(ctrl C Ctrl V from Firefox to Abiword)

Did you try the trick I mentioned in the Lesstif bug report? Please
do, it might help to fix the bug.

>> Is DDD installed on this machine?
>
>?

A gdb frontend which does use Lesstif.

>> KDE seems to be innocent.
>
>Yes, but I don't know if there is no difference between a copy - paste
>under KDE and a copy - past under gnome.

True; maybe the KDE guys can talk to the Lesstif guys to solve this?

Thorsten
--
Every person shall have the right freely to inform himself
without hindrance from generally accessible sources.
    - German Grundgesetz, Article 5, Sec. 1

[Alexandre Pineau (alexandre-pineau)]

On Sun, 18 Jul 2004 23:25:32 +0200
Thorsten Haude <email address hidden> wrote:

Hi Thorsten,
>
> * Alexandre Pineau wrote (2004-07-18 22:37):
> >Thorsten Haude <email address hidden> wrote:
> >> What setup do you use on the machine where you could not reproduce it?
> >
> >With Sarge's Nedit, I can reproduce it under KDE, but not under xfce3
> >(ctrl C Ctrl V from Firefox to Abiword)
>
> Did you try the trick I mentioned in the Lesstif bug report? Please
> do, it might help to fix the bug.

In your Lesstif bug report, you say :

>1. Put text A in the clipboard (verify with xclipboard)
>2. Open DDD and NEdit
>3. Copy text B in DDD
>4. Paste the clipboard to NEdit both *before* and *after*
>the five second timeout is up (xclipboard dialog).

>What I see here: The first paste inserts text B, the second
>paste inserts text A. My blind guess is that B is stored
>internally in Lesstif (it's not accessible to other apps)
>and overwritten with the clipboard once the timeout is up.

I can reproduce what you describe, but only if xclipboard is open.
Strange, not?

 Alexandre

--
Il vente, c'est le vent de la mer qui nous tourmente. - Pierre Mac Orlan
http://alexandre.pineau.free.fr/

[Thorsten Haude (debian-thorstenhau)]

Hi Alexandre,

* Alexandre Pineau wrote (2004-07-19 20:40):
>Thorsten Haude <email address hidden> wrote:
>> * Alexandre Pineau wrote (2004-07-18 22:37):
>> >Thorsten Haude <email address hidden> wrote:
>> >> What setup do you use on the machine where you could not reproduce it?
>> >
>> >With Sarge's Nedit, I can reproduce it under KDE, but not under xfce3
>> >(ctrl C Ctrl V from Firefox to Abiword)
>>
>> Did you try the trick I mentioned in the Lesstif bug report? Please
>> do, it might help to fix the bug.
>
>In your Lesstif bug report, you say :
>
>>1. Put text A in the clipboard (verify with xclipboard)
>>2. Open DDD and NEdit
>>3. Copy text B in DDD
>>4. Paste the clipboard to NEdit both *before* and *after*
>>the five second timeout is up (xclipboard dialog).
>
>>What I see here: The first paste inserts text B, the second
>>paste inserts text A. My blind guess is that B is stored
>>internally in Lesstif (it's not accessible to other apps)
>>and overwritten with the clipboard once the timeout is up.
>
>I can reproduce what you describe, but only if xclipboard is open.
>Strange, not?

I think it works like this: The clipboard (CLIPBOARD) does not work
very much different than the primary and secondary selection (PRIMARY
and SECONDARY). No data is actually copied on Copy, the app only
reports to some level of X11 that it has data other apps might find
useful. It has to name a callback function which is supposed to be
called once the data is actually requested by another app. This is
done to avoid expensive transmissions between client and server (which
may be on different continents).

Motif covers this with a number of convenience functions which makes
it a bit easier for the application to use CLIPBOARD (XmClipboardCopy
and friends). There is no need for the callback function, at least
this is how it is explained in my book, how it is done in NEdit and
how it actually works with Open Motif.

Enter xclipboard: This app *does* actually request the data put in
CLIPBOARD. It does that by means of a second callback function which
informs it that it no longer owns CLIPBOARD. Little xclipboard
immediately request the new content of CLIPBOARD from NEdit, and again
claims that it owns CLIPBOARD.

The request fails for some reason in our case, the transfer times out
and xclipboard gets the result XT_CONVERT_FAIL, which brings forth the
error message. CLIPBOARD is immediately reclaimed by xclipboard (still
with the old value) and NEdit happily requests and pastes *that* (A in
the above example). Without xclipboard, this would not happen, and
CLIPBOARD would remain claimed by NEdit.

If xclipboard does not run and the content of CLIPBOARD is only
requested by NEdit and DDD, everything works fine. As soon as
non-Lesstif apps enter the play, things get ugly because these apps do
similar things as xclipboard does, only without noticing the user of
problems.

The original description is matching my xclipboard story exactly:
1. Put text A in the clipboard (by copying from Konqueror into Emacs)
2. Start NEdit
3. Copy text B in Lesstif app
4a. Paste the clipboard to NEdit before five seconds are up.
4a. Paste the clipboard to NEdit after five seconds...

[Alexandre Pineau (alexandre-pineau)]

reassign 217121 lesstif2
stop

I reasign this bug from nedit (Copying and pasting can paste the wrong text)
to lesstif2.

Indeed, the bug can not be reproduced with a version of Nedit build with open
modif.

Lesstif bug 993412.
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=993412&group_id=8596&atid=108596

    Regards,

Alexandre Pineau (maintainer of NEdit package)

-- alex
Il vente, c'est le vent de la mer qui nous tourmente. - Pierre Mac Orlan
http://alexandre.pineau.free.fr/

[Thorsten Haude (yooden)]

Hi Alexandre,

* Thorsten Haude wrote (2004-07-18 21:47):
>This seems to be a Lesstif problem again, I have already submitted a
>bug report for Lesstif:
>
>https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=993412&group_id=8596&atid=108596

The Bug is accepted by the Lesstif team. This Debian bug can be closed.

Thorsten
--
Omnis enim res, quae quando non deficit, dum habetur
et non datur, nondum habetur, quomodo habenda est.
    - Aurelius Augustinus

[Sam Hocevar (sam-h)]

# Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.9.20
forwarded 217121 https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=993412&group_id=8596&atid=108596

[Sam Hocevar (sam-h)]

close 217121 1:0.94.4-1
thanks

On Sun, Jul 18, 2004, Thorsten Haude wrote:
> I can reproduce #217121 with Sarge's NEdit and, more importantly, with
> DDD. PRIMARY (mouse selection) does not seem to be affected.
>
> This seems to be a Lesstif problem again, I have already submitted a
> bug report for Lesstif:
>
> https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=993412&group_id=8596&atid=108596

   Upstream claims to have fixed this bug in version 0.93.95. It
was therefore fixed in Debian in upload 1:0.94.4-1 (0.93.95 was not
packaged).

Regards,
--
Sam.

[Bts-link-upstream (bts-link-upstream)]

#
# bts-link upstream status pull for source package lesstif2
# see http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2006/05/msg00001.html
#

user <email address hidden>

# remote status report for #217121
# * http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=108596&aid=993412&group_id=8596
# * remote status changed: (?) -> Closed
# * remote resolution changed: (?) -> Fixed
# * closed upstream
tags 217121 + fixed-upstream
usertags 217121 + status-Closed resolution-Fixed

# remote status report for #305308
# * http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=108596&aid=993412&group_id=8596
# * remote status changed: (?) -> Closed
# * remote resolution changed: (?) -> Fixed
# * closed upstream
tags 305308 + fixed-upstream
usertags 305308 + status-Closed resolution-Fixed

# remote status report for #340780
# * http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=108596&aid=1366881&group_id=8596
# * remote status changed: (?) -> Open
usertags 340780 + status-Open

thanks

[Joe Perkins (jperkins)]

Binary package hint: nedit

1. Copy worked under 8.10 on this machine.
2. Version is stock 1:5.5-3. Also tried nedit's 1:5 with same result.
3. Expected to be able to copy and paste in nedit.

4. Can copy using say gedit, and then paste in nedit. Just cannot copy in nedit

Incidentally, File Open did not work every time in 8.10, but seems to work in 9.04 - yea!

[Paul Gevers (paul-climbing)]

Are you sure this is new for you?

In Debian there are several bugs related to copy/pasting in the lesstif2 library. You might want to see if you can pin your problem down.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=lesstif2;dist=unstable

I am planning on working on lesstif2 and nedit after I finish my current project.

[Joe Perkins (jperkins)]

Well, the bug is new to me. After looking at other problems people have had
and the motif clones, this is probably not a new bug, just a new
manifestation of an existing bug. In any case, I have work to do and gedit
is good enough. If you want something tested let me know. I have used
nedit for years, and will miss it.

Joe Perkins

On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Paul Gevers <email address hidden> wrote:

> Are you sure this is new for you?
>
> In Debian there are several bugs related to copy/pasting in the lesstif2
> library. You might want to see if you can pin your problem down.
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=lesstif2;dist=unstable
>
> I am planning on working on lesstif2 and nedit after I finish my current
> project.
>
> --
> in 9.04 for AMD64, nedit will not copy to clipboard
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/366835
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in “nedit” source package in Ubuntu: New
> Status in “nedit” source package in Debian: Unknown
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: nedit
>
> 1. Copy worked under 8.10 on this machine.
> 2. Version is stock 1:5.5-3. Also tried nedit's 1:5 with same result.
> 3. Expected to be able to copy and paste in nedit.
>
> 4. Can copy using say gedit, and then paste in nedit. Just cannot copy in
> nedit
>
> Incidentally, File Open did not work every time in 8.10, but seems to work
> in 9.04 - yea!
>

[Paul Gevers (paul-climbing)]

> If you want something tested let me know. I have used nedit for
> years, and will miss it.

Just so you know, I have nedit (and lesstif2, you probably want that
too) in my PPA [1]. I would appreciate it when you test it end tell me
if it solves your problem (and what how your experience with my package
is in general)

Instructions on how to install from a PPA are available at [1] as well.

Paul

[1] https://launchpad.net/~paul-climbing/+archive/ppa

[Patrick Bouffard (patrick-m-bouffard)]

Hi Paul,

I'd been having similar problems since my upgrade to Jaunty, though copy/paste seemed to work initially and then stop working at some point after I start using Nedit, and I'm not sure what triggers it.

So far so good with your packages, thanks. They also seem to resolve another annoying problem with the Nedit from Jaunty. I am used to hitting Ctrl+G to find the next search result but with the Jaunty package that started to insert the <BEL> character (talk about a 'historical' feature!) instead.

The only other comment I have for now is that the Help>Version doesn't actually tell me the version number anymore, and gives a scary message about a "known bad' Motif:
"""
NEdit release of Aug 20, 2004

     Built on: Linux, 486, GNU C
     Built at: Mar 18 2009, 16:19:39
   With Motif: (Known Bad) 2.1.0 [@(#)GNU/LessTif Version 2.1 Release 0.95.0]
Running Motif: 2.1 [unknown]
       Server: The X.Org Foundation 10600000
       Visual: 24-bit TrueColor (ID 0x21, Default)
       Locale: en_US.UTF-8

This NEdit was built with a known-bad version of Motif. Please do not report any bugs you encounter unless you can reproduce them with a known-good binary from the www.nedit.org website. If this binary was supplied with your Linux distribution please file a bug report with them asking them to build NEdit with a known-good version of Motif.
"""

Cheers,
Pat

[Patrick Bouffard (patrick-m-bouffard)]

Well, that didn't take long.. Copy/Paste stopped working for me (both keyboard shortcuts and through menus). Unclear what might have triggered it.

[Joe Perkins (jperkins)]

Paul,

Followed your installation instructions - no problems - nedit works again!!
I'll let you know if I find any more problems.
Thanks!!

Joe Perkins

On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 2:55 AM, Paul Gevers <email address hidden> wrote:

> > If you want something tested let me know. I have used nedit for
> > years, and will miss it.
>
> Just so you know, I have nedit (and lesstif2, you probably want that
> too) in my PPA [1]. I would appreciate it when you test it end tell me
> if it solves your problem (and what how your experience with my package
> is in general)
>
> Instructions on how to install from a PPA are available at [1] as well.
>
> Paul
>
> [1] https://launchpad.net/~paul-climbing/+archive/ppa<https://launchpad.net/%7Epaul-climbing/+archive/ppa>
>
> --
> in 9.04 for AMD64, nedit will not copy to clipboard
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/366835
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in “nedit” source package in Ubuntu: New
> Status in “nedit” source package in Debian: New
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: nedit
>
> 1. Copy worked under 8.10 on this machine.
> 2. Version is stock 1:5.5-3. Also tried nedit's 1:5 with same result.
> 3. Expected to be able to copy and paste in nedit.
>
> 4. Can copy using say gedit, and then paste in nedit. Just cannot copy in
> nedit
>
> Incidentally, File Open did not work every time in 8.10, but seems to work
> in 9.04 - yea!
>

[dslbrian (dslbrian)]

I can second this bug. Running a new install of Ubuntu 9.04, AMD 64bit, Gnome desktop. Installed nedit from the standard repo and couldn't get copy/paste to work. Error was: Attempt to copy to unlocked clipboard.

Downloading the binaries from nedit.org didn't work for me (due to 64bit?). Solution that worked for me, was to download source, and compile and install.

On the Ubuntu side it required installing openmotif and some dev packages: libmotif3, libmotif-dev, libx-dev, libxt-dev, and perhaps a few more X11 dev packages (forgot the complete list). For the nedit source I had to add in -lXmu to the link line in the makefile.linux file.

After that compile worked fine. Tested copy and paste and they worked fine. Here is the new info from the Help->Version:

NEdit 5.5
Sep 30, 2004

     Built on: Linux, x86-64, GNU C
     Built at: May 12 2009, 01:31:14
   With Motif: 2.2.3 [@(#)Motif Version 2.2.3]
Running Motif: 2.2 [unknown]
       Server: The X.Org Foundation 10600000
       Visual: 32-bit TrueColor (ID 0x23)
       Locale: en_US.utf8

[orbitcowboy (orbitcowboy)]

Hi Brian,
i needed to install the following packages to compile nedit from source:

libmotif-dev, libmotif3,libxp-dev

then,

tar -xpvzf nedit_5.6~cvs20081118.orig.tar.gz
cd nedit-5.6/makefiles/
make linux

...

that worked fine :-)

Now, hopefully the copy & paste bug is gone on my fresh installed jaunty.

Best regards

Ettl Martin

[Paul Gevers (paul-climbing)]

> i needed to install the following packages to compile nedit from source:
>
> libmotif-dev, libmotif3,libxp-dev

Those packages are from the multiverse repository, while nedit is in
universe. So this is not a general solution for nedit.

I confirm myself that the bug exist also in my new packages. I will look
into this, but help is appreciated. Also, upstream at nedit somebody
just complained that this problem also happened with the motif libraries.

Paul

[Nic (nicflatterie)]

I confirm same bug here. Using Ubuntu 9.04 within VirtualBox 2.2.0 and 2.2.2 on Win XP.
Recompiling solved it, very happy to have found this page!
Thanks to all involved, you made my day!
Nic.

[Matthew S. Moore (majjhima)]

I also confirm this bug with my upgrade to Jaunty and nedit 1:5.5-3. After reinstalling nedit and lesstiff2 from Paul's PPA (https://launchpad.net/~paul-climbing/+archive/ppa) I'm back in business. Thanks Paul!

[Paul Gevers (paul-climbing)]

I made a mistake in my previous comment (#9), nedit in Ubuntu is in multiverse, not in universe. In 1:5.5-2ubuntu1 until (not including) 1:5.5-3 nedit depended on motif. Pending a fix in lesstif we might want to build nedit using motif again in Ubuntu.

As a side note, when we keep nedit building on lesstif we can move nedit (back) to universe.

[Paul Gevers (paul-climbing)]

I just found out that this bug *might* be introduced because a patch was reverted for an other problem. I just marked a bug in lesstif2 for Debian to track it. I will be looking into this.

[Paul Gevers (paul-climbing)]

Temporarily work around: quit Klipper (in the menu bar) during use of nedit. See bug 74518.

[Paul Gevers (paul-climbing)]

> Temporarily work around: quit Klipper (in the menu bar) during use of
> nedit. See bug 74518.

Better still: configure klipper to ignore actions of nedit.

In klipper -> Configure -> Actions -> Advanced -> Disabled Actions for
Windows of Type WM_CLASS : nedit

Paul

[Paul Gevers (paul-climbing)]

Just a small note for people trying and using my PPA, I moved lesstif and nedit to their own PPA [1] to not mix the different packages I work on. I will update lesstif soon (i.e. next week) in the different versions of ubuntu.

[1] https://launchpad.net/~paul-climbing/+archive/lesstif+nedit/

[Michael (michael-hirsch)]

Great! I've tried it and it worked.

Cheers,
Michael

[Радомир Јаковљевић (radegm-gmail)]

Copy/paste still doesn't work in Ubuntu 9.04 server, after applying the patch from Paul's PPA.

[Paul Gevers (paul-climbing)]

@Радомир Јаковљевић: Did you deactivate klipper or any other clipboard manager to test? There is a known issue with lesstif2 that copy/pasting does probably not implement copy/paste according to spec. The AMD64 specific issue should be resolved.

[togaclad (eric-englert)]

Hey there.
I have not seen this issue with Ubuntu but I do see it with Redhat with KDE. Also the problem seems to show up after using something under the macros or tools tab. Anyways I found if you use the kwin --replace (bug fix for window re-size issue). Cut-n-paste works again. This is not a long term solution but could help some in the short term and may provide some more direction on where the issue lies.

[Paul Gevers (paul-climbing)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please execute the following command, as it will automatically gather debugging information, in a terminal:

apport-collect 366835

This will help us to find and resolve the problem. Bear in mind that you may need to install the python-launchpadlib package from the universe repository. Additionally, when prompted to give apport-collect permissions for Launchpad you will need to give it at least the ability to "Change Non-Private" data as it will be adding information to your bug report. Thanks in advance!

[Paul Gevers (paul-climbing)]

Sorry for this last comment. It must have been a mistake of my first use of bughugger.

[Joe Perkins (jperkins)]

apport information

[Joe Perkins (jperkins)]

There is a new bug for 10.04, involving right-clicking with the mouse. Both
ddd and nedit have the problem, where right-clicking on a tab makes the
program sort of lock-up, requiring a CTRL-ALT F6 to get to a terminal and
kill-all. It is very annoying, since it happens when my mind is on other
things. The copy to scratchpad works most of the time, but not always.

On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 4:51 AM, Paul Gevers <email address hidden> wrote:

> Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
> Ubuntu better. Please execute the following command, as it will
> automatically gather debugging information, in a terminal:
>
> apport-collect 366835
>
> This will help us to find and resolve the problem. Bear in mind that you
> may need to install the python-launchpadlib package from the universe
> repository. Additionally, when prompted to give apport-collect
> permissions for Launchpad you will need to give it at least the ability
> to "Change Non-Private" data as it will be adding information to your
> bug report. Thanks in advance!
>
> ** Changed in: nedit (Ubuntu)
> Status: Confirmed => Incomplete
>
> --
> in 9.04 for AMD64, nedit will not copy to clipboard
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/366835
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in “nedit” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete
> Status in “lesstif2” package in Debian: Fix Released
> Status in “nedit” package in Debian: Fix Released
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: nedit
>
> 1. Copy worked under 8.10 on this machine.
> 2. Version is stock 1:5.5-3. Also tried nedit's 1:5 with same result.
> 3. Expected to be able to copy and paste in nedit.
>
> 4. Can copy using say gedit, and then paste in nedit. Just cannot copy in
> nedit
>
> Incidentally, File Open did not work every time in 8.10, but seems to work
> in 9.04 - yea!
>
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[Richard M Smith (richard-featplus-com)]

I'm having the same type of problems with nedit in Ubuntu 10.04 AMD64.
Nedit works OK at first, then starts to malfunction - as you say, at inopportune times!
Copy-paste by highlighting and middle-mouse click, or by menu, starts failing to work within the same window.
Meanwhile, copy-pasting from elsewhere (eg xterm window) DOES work. On another tab, everything seems normal.
Today I tried to close down the offending tab by right clicking on it. The result was that the mouse pointer was "trapped" within the menu bar.
All I could do then was CNRTL-ALT F1 to do a text login and kill nedit.
But in the middle of that, X on F7 crashed and restarted.
Log message:

Aug 24 15:23:24 joseph kernel: [443474.418222] nedit[9190]: segfault at 2 ip 00007fee622493d9 sp 00007fff731f81e0 error 4 in libXm.so.2.0.1[7fee62190000+163000]

From reports elsewhere, this kind of nedit/lesstif problem has been around for some time. I recently jumped from Hardy to Lucid with a fresh install. I am now finding that nedit is so unreliable I have to move to something else, even if I have to give up features (eg vertical selections) that I value.

[Richard M Smith (richard-featplus-com)]

OK it has just happened again.
At least I can correct the previous comment - the mouse pointer was trapped in the tabs area, not the menu bar.

[Richard M Smith (richard-featplus-com)]

The right-click on a tab problems is reported separately as a bug in lesstif, but appears to be an Xorg problem.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=543647
Looks like redhat have a patch for this particular bug in fedora, but judging by reversions there, it has not been fixed upstream in Xorg.

[Paul Gevers (paul-climbing)]

@ Richard M Smith: Could you please file a separate bug against libx11 with the information you provided here? Thanks.

As a general note to this bug report: it turned out that rewriting the lesstif copy/paste code is well above my abilities. On both the lesstif website (http://lesstif.sourceforge.net/#help) and in the debian bts 551853 I have stated that help is very welcome. I had somebody looking at the code who was knowledgeable about X and the clipboard, but haven't heard from him after some initial communication.

Maybe Ubuntu should compile nedit again against openmotif?

[Richard Smith (richard-featplus)]

@Paul Gevers: OK I will do that.

BTW The X crash reported in #38 probably wasn't caused by the nedit/lesstif/Xorg problem.
I had the same behaviour without nedit running, and I had music playing every time the crash occurred - it looks like pulseaudio may be causing it. Sorry about the noise.

[Qianqian Fang (fangq)]

problem not fixed. nedit clipboard function stop working from time to time on my Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS (xfce 4.6).

when it fails to work, pressing Ctrl+C raises the following error in the console:

  NEdit warning:
  XmClipboardLock() failed: clipboard locked.

and pressing Ctrl+V raises another warning:

  NEdit warning:
  XmClipboardInquireLength() failed: clipboard locked.

I had experienced this issue many years ago and it still persisted in the latest LTS.

[Joe Perkins (jperkins)]

I have this bug also using Ubuntu 10.10 on a 2 core AMD 64 bit processor. I
can usually get copy and paste to work again in nedit by using it in another
program or sometimes in just another tab under nedit. It is a nuisance

Joe Perkins

On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 12:55 PM, Qianqian Fang <email address hidden> wrote:

> problem not fixed. nedit clipboard function stop working from time to
> time on my Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS (xfce 4.6).
>
> when it fails to work, pressing Ctrl+C raises the following error in the
> console:
>
> NEdit warning:
> XmClipboardLock() failed: clipboard locked.
>
> and pressing Ctrl+V raises another warning:
>
> NEdit warning:
> XmClipboardInquireLength() failed: clipboard locked.
>
> I had experienced this issue many years ago and it still persisted in
> the latest LTS.
>
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> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/366835
>
> Title:
> in 9.04 for AMD64, nedit will not copy to clipboard
>
> Status in “nedit” package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
> Status in “lesstif2” package in Debian:
> Fix Released
> Status in “nedit” package in Debian:
> Fix Released
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: nedit
>
> 1. Copy worked under 8.10 on this machine.
> 2. Version is stock 1:5.5-3. Also tried nedit's 1:5 with same result.
> 3. Expected to be able to copy and paste in nedit.
>
> 4. Can copy using say gedit, and then paste in nedit. Just cannot
> copy in nedit
>
> Incidentally, File Open did not work every time in 8.10, but seems to work
> in 9.04 - yea!
> ---
> Architecture: amd64
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
> Package: nedit 1:5.6~cvs20081118-7
> PackageArchitecture: amd64
> ProcEnviron:
> PATH=(custom, user)
> LANG=en_US.utf8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.36-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
> Tags: lucid
> Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic x86_64
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[Paul Gevers (paul-climbing)]

In Saucy Salamander, Nedit is now build against motif again, as motif has moved to a free license. As several people on this bug reported that the bug is not present when they build themselves against motif, I close this bug as fix released.