Fails to copy to clipboard

[Google Code Exporter]

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Select text
2. Copy (either ctrl-C, or right-click > copy)
3. Attempt to paste, either within gwrite or in another program.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
* Sometimes the selected text has not been copied, and whatever was already in 
the clipboard is pasted instead. Repeating the attempt usually doesn't help.
* Sometimes, the clipboard is blanked, and nothing is pasted.
* Sometimes it works correctly.
I can sometimes get different results by switching to a different tab and 
trying to copy from a different document.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
 0.5.1 on Debian Squeeze.

Please provide any additional information below.

It might be relevant that I have 8 tabs open in gwrite. I just tried a couple 
of times opening one file only, and it worked fine.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [e-mail] on 8 Jul 2011 at 4:19

[Google Code Exporter]

I've experimented and discovered the following:
* Saving the file before I copy or cut will often lead to a successful copy/cut 
and paste. If I've edited the file since the last save, then it seems to be 
guaranteed or almost guaranteed that the text will fail to be copied to the 
clipboard.
* If I have multiple files open, and saving the current file still doesn't lead 
to successful copying to clipboard, then first saving every file in the current 
window may help.
* Sometimes even that doesn't work, even after I try repeatedly, and the only 
way to continue working with the file is to open it in another program. (This 
is frustrating as there are features in gwrite that I like to use.)

Original comment by [e-mail] on 29 Sep 2011 at 3:23

[Google Code Exporter]

Hi, I think this a Bug in upstream webkitgtk,

cound you try fresh code in hg, 

it had switch to the gtk3, and use the new version of webkit.

Original comment by [e-mail] on 17 Nov 2011 at 8:58

• Changed state: Accepted