Package: x11-apps Version: 7.3+4 Severity: critical Justification: causes serious data loss
In gnome, without glipper running, the regular clipboard suffers from a fatal flaw that is enormously irritating: when you quit an application, the contents of the paste buffer disappear. For example, without glipper running, I open openoffice.org writer and use it like I would use MS Word or something. I cut some text from one document. Then I close the window, naturally saving of course, and go and double-click on an oowriter file icon in a nautilus folder of a different document. That document opens up. But I can't paste - the clipboard contents vanished, making me lose my important text to a void of oblivion. I am lucky that I had a backup copy of the original file, and I was able to track down my gibberish notes for episode 9. This is true of any application. For example, (without glipper running), I have an Iceweasel and a gnome-terminal window open. I select the URL from the location bar in Iceweasel, ctl-c to copy or copy from the edit menu, then go to the terminal window. At that point I can right-click in the terminal and choose paste, the URL pastes okay. But if I close Iceweasel, then I can no longer choose paste in the terminal window -- the clipboard contents have vanished. With glipper running in the panel, the gnome clipboard contents are preserved after the source application has quit, and I can paste them like I would expect using the paste command. But glipper is not a required package for gnome, and it alters the way the normal paste buffer behaves. Using mouse selection + right/left or center click behaves exactly the same way. When the source application quits, the buffer contents are gone. I am assuming that by default gnome uses xclipboard for the copy/paste functions in menus (when glipper is not installed.) This is NOT how "regular computers" work, and would be a show stopper for a novice user. As long as the window system is running, the clipboard contents should be preserved, whether or not I close any particular window. Mark -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (990, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-maggie-8 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages x11-apps depends on: ii cpp 4:4.3.2-2 The GNU C preprocessor (cpp) ii libc6 2.7-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libice6 2:1.0.4-1 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library ii libpng12-0 1.2.27-2 PNG library - runtime ii libsm6 2:1.0.3-2 X11 Session Management library ii libx11-6 2:1.1.5-2 X11 client-side library ii libxaw7 2:1.0.4-2 X11 Athena Widget library ii libxcursor1 1:1.1.9-1 X cursor management library ii libxext6 2:1.0.4-1 X11 miscellaneous extension librar ii libxft2 2.1.12-3 FreeType-based font drawing librar ii libxkbfile1 1:1.0.5-1 X11 keyboard file manipulation lib ii libxmu6 2:1.0.4-1 X11 miscellaneous utility library ii libxmuu1 2:1.0.4-1 X11 miscellaneous micro-utility li ii libxrender1 1:0.9.4-2 X Rendering Extension client libra ii libxt6 1:1.0.5-3 X11 toolkit intrinsics library ii x11-common 1:7.3+18 X Window System (X.Org) infrastruc x11-apps recommends no packages. Versions of packages x11-apps suggests: pn mesa-utils <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
