chaz572
December 2nd, 2009, 11:35 PM
I've gotten into a state on my kubuntu 9.10 workstation where konsole can't copy to the clipboard. Firefox can copy to / paste from the clipboard. Pidgin can. Everything else I've tested can. If I copy from any other app, I can paste into konsole, but no matter how I try to copy out of konsole, it doesn't end up in the clipboard. I usually just highlight, and expect that to work. Until recently it has. Now highlighting doesn't work, highlighting and then Ctrl+Shift+C doesn't work, and highlighting and then right-click select Copy from context menu doesn't work.
Here's how I'm guessing it happened.... We've got a pool of workstations here that all authenticate a common set of users over NIS, with all the user home directories on NFS. Unfortunately, when we set up the current batch of workstations, we didn't standardize on distro, and several people installed whatever they wanted on their workstation without coordinating. Mine is kubuntu 9.10. But on Monday afternoon, I had to log into the X console of somebody else's workstation that was running OpenSUSE 11.1 to troubleshoot an issue on their workstation. Stupidly, I logged in as me while I still was logged in as me on my workstation, and OpenSUSE proceeded to set up its desktop environment as a new user in my home directory while kubuntu was running on those same config files. So who knows what it changed, but I'm thinking somehow it managed to break copy to clipboard in konsole. At least everything else on my workstation seems fine so far.
I tried logging out of my kubuntu session, and logging back in. Didn't seem to help at all. I've been poking through config files under ~/.kde4, especially anything apparently related to konsole, but I don't see anything odd jumping out at me. Does anybody have any ideas?
Thanks much!
Here's how I'm guessing it happened.... We've got a pool of workstations here that all authenticate a common set of users over NIS, with all the user home directories on NFS. Unfortunately, when we set up the current batch of workstations, we didn't standardize on distro, and several people installed whatever they wanted on their workstation without coordinating. Mine is kubuntu 9.10. But on Monday afternoon, I had to log into the X console of somebody else's workstation that was running OpenSUSE 11.1 to troubleshoot an issue on their workstation. Stupidly, I logged in as me while I still was logged in as me on my workstation, and OpenSUSE proceeded to set up its desktop environment as a new user in my home directory while kubuntu was running on those same config files. So who knows what it changed, but I'm thinking somehow it managed to break copy to clipboard in konsole. At least everything else on my workstation seems fine so far.
I tried logging out of my kubuntu session, and logging back in. Didn't seem to help at all. I've been poking through config files under ~/.kde4, especially anything apparently related to konsole, but I don't see anything odd jumping out at me. Does anybody have any ideas?
Thanks much!