Clipboard issues in KDE3

[terranim]

Hi,

I'm running KDE 3.5.9 in Kubuntu 8.04.
I seem to be getting intermittent problems with the clipboard, or more specifically the Ctrl-C and Ctrl-X key presses. Quite often they don't actually seem to copy to the clipboard at all (and in the case of Ctrl-X it removes the text but doesn't put it in the clipboard), then when I attempt to Ctrl-V there is either nothing to paste or a previously copied block of text.
If I then undo and copy or cut again using the keys it seems to work.

Obviously this gets very frustrating when I'm trying to work and the basic clipboard functionality doesn't work as it should!

Any suggestions would be much appreciated.

Regards,
Dan

EDIT: I don't think it's actually a problem with the clipboard itself, but something to do with the handling of the keypresses in Kubuntu since I also had problems with my multimedia buttons on the front of the laptop which suddenly stopped working.

[nowshining]

try looking into the clipboard icon in the system tray - it's called klipper - i've been having clipboard issues too myself- ur post may be an answer that non of my tweaks caused the problems.

[terranim]

Klipper is present and working! As I mentioned before, I don't think the problem is Klipper but actually the keypresses not getting handled properly.

[Throctukes]

I'm seeing pretty much exactly the same behaviour, also using KDE 3.5.9 in Kubuntu 8.04. Klipper is working fine, but I need to hit the copy shortcut combination twice in order to copy something - so:

ctrl-c = no copy
ctrl-c ctrl-c = copy
ctrl-x = no copy (and you just deleted what you wanted to copy)
ctrl-c ctrl-x = cut-n-copy as you'd expect.

The weirdest thing is that this is intermittent - five minutes ago, I was getting the buggy behaviour, but now (having changed nothing as far as I can see) the clipboard is working fine.

I haven't noticed any issues with my multimedia keys, but I have noticed vmware karking up the keymap royally on occasion (with all the shift, ctrl, capslock, multimedia keys becoming disabled), but unsetting and resetting the keyboard layout in the KDE regional & language settings fixes that. Still leaves klipper being weird though.