I'm actually looking for a way to troubleshoot this issue.
I run Ubuntu 16.04 with Neon KDE environment. Pidgin runs within this mostly correctly except for some odd behavior during copy/paste operations. I haven't completely narrowed it down, but the operation seems to be that when I select text with certain programs, such as konsole, and then paste into pidgin, this selection then becomes 'sticky', but only for pidgin. I can select text from another program and then attempt to paste it again into pidgin, but I get the old value. I use the KDE clipboard tool and can verify that the text is no longer in the buffer, yet pidgin still seems to have it. I can sometimes reset it by bringing up Kate editor, but many times the only way to clear it is to exit pidgin.
For example, right now I am entering this text with Chrome and Ctrl V (or right button paste) pastes nothing but blank text. The same operation in pidgin puts this text (from a log file) :
If I select, copy text within pidgin, then this appears to clear 'old' text and new text is then in the buffer. If I select text again from konsole, it is then 'stuck' again. The issue isn't limited to konsole, but it is one of the easiest to demonstrate.
I'm actually looking for a way to troubleshoot this issue.
I run Ubuntu 16.04 with Neon KDE environment. Pidgin runs within this mostly correctly except for some odd behavior during copy/paste operations. I haven't completely narrowed it down, but the operation seems to be that when I select text with certain programs, such as konsole, and then paste into pidgin, this selection then becomes 'sticky', but only for pidgin. I can select text from another program and then attempt to paste it again into pidgin, but I get the old value. I use the KDE clipboard tool and can verify that the text is no longer in the buffer, yet pidgin still seems to have it. I can sometimes reset it by bringing up Kate editor, but many times the only way to clear it is to exit pidgin.
For example, right now I am entering this text with Chrome and Ctrl V (or right button paste) pastes nothing but blank text. The same operation in pidgin puts this text (from a log file) :
3213874 PDHC 1,1 1 0 16801e0100e10000 000000084e88b1f0 ELS_MINT_LIST ENER
If I select, copy text within pidgin, then this appears to clear 'old' text and new text is then in the buffer. If I select text again from konsole, it is then 'stuck' again. The issue isn't limited to konsole, but it is one of the easiest to demonstrate.
Ideas?