confirmed: killing xfce4-settings-helper makes copy-pasting working again in inkscape.
also i have the impression that the error does not occur upon copying but upon pasting. (but my computer is very slow, so it may be lagging a bit) pieter On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 4:22 PM, pieter de troyer <pieter.detro...@gmail.com>wrote: > The xcfc4-settings-helper is indeed running... will try to kill it, but i > fear a bit the consequences of it :-) > > > On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 4:12 PM, Alex Valavanis <valavanisa...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Hi Pieter, >> >> I'm not sure how you check if your clipboard is being monitored. >> There is a list of software that is known to cause problems in the >> upstream report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/418242 >> >> Do you see anything there that you recognise? >> >> Alex >> >> On 4 May 2011 10:08, pieter de troyer <pieter.detro...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > I have the same problem on xubuntu 11.04 (so running inkscape in xfce >> > environment). >> > I open a new document, create a rectangle, select it, hit ctrl-c, >> bang... >> > How do you check if something is using/watching your clipboard? i don't >> have >> > xfce4-clipman running. >> > Pieter >> > >