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Bug 329219

Summary:	X Selection gets overwritten by some entry-fields on Linux/KDE
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Ariel Garcia <aog-ecl>
Component:	SWT	Assignee:	Platform-SWT-Inbox <platform-swt-inbox>
Status:	CLOSED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	eclipse.felipe, ericwill, ob1.eclipse, remy.suen
Version:	3.6	Keywords:	triaged
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux-GTK
Whiteboard:

Description Ariel Garcia

2010-11-01 15:57:48 EDT

When opening some dialogs Eclipse automatically preselects some field for entering data, and enters there some default value or description. However, this preselected text overwrites the pre-existing X-selection...

This happens for instance with the Resource rename dialog.

Steps to reproduce:

- Doubleclick some text in a console (konsole) to select it
  (verify that it has been selected by pasting it with a middle-mouse-button
   click in the console for instance)

- switch to eclipse, select a file in the project explorer and press F2 
  to rename it

- the Rename Resource dialog opens, with the current filename entered as initial
  value for "New name:"

- press the "del" key to remove the preselected text and paste the 
  X-selection with a middle-mouse-button click: the name of the file to be
  renamed is pasted again.

Expected result: the originally selected text in the console is pasted


Running Eclipse 3.6 (C++ Yoxos package) on Linux/KDE 4.4.5, Debian Squeeze.

Comment 1 Ariel Garcia

2010-11-01 16:06:54 EDT

Correction to "Steps to reproduce:", last item:

the X-selection contains the filename of the to be renamed file (as you can check in klipper or by pasting into a console) but nothing is pasted back in the Eclipse rename dialog.

Comment 2 Oleg Besedin

2010-12-13 10:15:13 EST

Might be related to the bug 240257.

Comment 3 Felipe Heidrich

2010-12-13 10:26:21 EST

Platform=PC Linux QT

is that correct ?

Comment 4 Ariel Garcia

2010-12-13 12:40:41 EST

Hi,

well in my case it is clearly Platform="PC Linux QT", but I can't say if the same problem happens on a pure "Linux GTK" environment for instance. As i said in the original report, my system is KDE/QT based; however i use the 
   gtk-qt-engine (version 1:1.1+svn5-4+b1the on Debian)
theme engine package for GTK. So Eclipse uses SWT uses GTK uses QT... ;-)

As Oleg mentioned above it might be related to Bug #240257, if that was an SWT-GTK bug then it would probably explain both reports.

Thanks, Ariel

Comment 5 Felipe Heidrich

2010-12-13 14:55:42 EST

On Linux the most common SWT port is GTK.
We also have a motif port for Linux (for testing only), and there is also a qt port from the comunity (which is not distribute from eclpse.org).

What is the name of the file you download ?

Comment 6 Ariel Garcia

2010-12-13 19:42:16 EST

Sorry for my mess up! yes of course it is the GTK based package, i didn't even know that there was now a QT port available somewhere.

I was confused by the "linux QT" platform menu entry and the fact that i run it on my KDE desktop.

Concretely, i tested with the Yoxos 5 distribution, C++ configuration profile, but a colleague of mine tested with some EPP package, same results.

Comment 7 Alexander Kurtakov

2017-01-05 16:58:29 EST

Is this bug still relevant?

Comment 8 Eric Williams

2018-08-16 15:22:00 EDT

(In reply to Alexander Kurtakov from comment #7)
> Is this bug still relevant?

No response, closing this ticket. Please reopen it if the issue persists on GTK3.22 with 4.8.