Package: xfce4-clipman-plugin Version: 2:1.1.3-3 Severity: normal File: clipman
Clipman interferes with GnuCash autocompletion of fields. In order to describe the problem, I shall describe the GnuCash autocompletion feature first: When you start populating a field of a transaction, GnuCash offers a previously entered text either to accept as is or modify. For instance, if I enter "e" in the Notes field, GnuCash populates the field with "ebay" because a previously entered transaction had a Notes field beginning with "e" and containing "ebay". The only letter I typed by this point is "e" and "bay" is selected. If I now type "b", GnuCash shortens the selection to "ay" and so forth. As long as I keep typing the letters of the text offered the text does not change and the selection gets progressively shorter. The problem: if Clipman is running, the autocompletion works in the way described above for maybe one or two characters. But then the selection is all of a sudden lost (zero characters selected) with the cursor after the end of the text. Using above example, the following might happen: I type "e", which offers me "ebay"; I type "b", which reduces selection to "ay"; I type "a" and this collapses the selection and places the cursor behind "ebay" and now my typing causes "a" to be appended to the text resulting in "ebaya". If I kill the Clipman process, the problem disappears and GnuCash behaves correctly. (I am now using parcellite as a clipboard manager, which does not cause any problems.) The problem first occurred when I upgraded from Debian lenny to squeeze in June 2011. This meant an upgrade from GnuCash 2.2.6 to 2.2.9. I don't know what Clipman version I was on before the upgrade. I am now running GnuCash 2.4.4 and the problem still exists. The problem was originally perceived as a GnuCash problem and reported twice: by myself and a fellow xfce user: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/problem-autocompletion-of-account-names-td3568218.html https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=618239 Both bug reports describe the phenomenon with regard to the accounts field of a transaction. The problem is exactly the same but the description is more difficult to understand for a non-gnucash user because GnuCash applies further logic knowing the accounts hierarchy, which is why I chose the more straight-forward example of the Notes field. -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.1 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-bpo.2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages xfce4-clipman-plugin depends on: ii libc6 2.11.2-10 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libexo-0.3-0 0.3.107-1 Library with extensions for Xfce ii libglib2.0-0 2.24.2-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libgtk2.0-0 2.20.1-2 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libx11-6 2:1.3.3-4 X11 client-side library ii libxfce4util4 4.6.2-1 Utility functions library for Xfce ii libxfcegui4-4 4.6.4-1 Basic GUI C functions for Xfce4 ii libxfconf-0-2 4.6.2-1 Client library for Xfce4 configure ii xfce4-clipman 2:1.1.3-3 clipboard history utility ii xfce4-panel 4.6.4-1 The Xfce4 desktop environment pane xfce4-clipman-plugin recommends no packages. xfce4-clipman-plugin suggests no packages. -- no debconf information _______________________________________________ Pkg-xfce-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-xfce-devel
