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duese

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Registered: 2014-10-10

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[SOLVED] Clipboard gets overwritten on simple selection

Hello!

I'm facing a very annoying bug: I'm used to use a clipboard manager. I started using parcellite. After some time of usage, suddenly the behavior of the clipboard changes. Every time I select some text in e.g. Eclipse, geany, Firefox, ... the clipboard content gets overwritten. When I now press Ctrl+V the previously selected text gets inserted. When I copy selected text with Ctrl+C, double click on text I want to replace, press Ctrl+V, nothing happens because it uses the selected text to insert which is, in this case, the same.

Currently I'm trying xfce4-clipman-plugin, but the same bug applies here too. It's not buggy when I freshly started Openbox, the bug occures after minutes of operation.

Anybody an idea?

Regards,
duese

Last edited by duese (2015-04-17 07:56:44)

runical

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Re: [SOLVED] Clipboard gets overwritten on simple selection

X has 2 buffers. The selection buffer (selected text, can be printed with a middle click) and the keyboard buffer. Many clipboard managers have the option to synchronize these 2 text buffers. Maybe you activated this option?

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duese

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Registered: 2014-10-10

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Re: [SOLVED] Clipboard gets overwritten on simple selection

I know about that option in both Tools, but they are deactivated.

duese

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Re: [SOLVED] Clipboard gets overwritten on simple selection

It's getting worse!

I deactivated any clipboard manager and did a reboot. Now when I select text the clipboard gets overwritten instantly. So when I copy a word and select another to get it replaced, I can't.

I thought it could be the fault of any other application, in particular "android studio" but I can't find anything helpful or special. Also when this bug occures, any application is affected.

duese

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Registered: 2014-10-10

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Re: [SOLVED] Clipboard gets overwritten on simple selection

I found the solution!

I started each application I'm currently using one by one and tested it. It seems that TigerVNC is causing this bug. I activated the option "Send primary selection & cut buffer as clipboard" (I think this is the english equivalent to the german option "Primäre Auswahl und Ausschneidepuffer als Zwischenablage senden"). As soon as I deactivated this option, everything works fine!