Eclipse in KDE

[Rex Dieter]

Rex Dieter wrote:

> Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> 
>> Across two versions of Fedora now (F10,F11) I have had problems with
>> keyboard shortcut usage of copy,cut,paste in Eclipse -- and as far as
>> I know, only Eclipse. My initial Googling suggests that this only
>> happens in KDE, and the only real solution I have come across so far
>> is disabling Klipper, which I rather not do. Anyone have a better
>> solution to the problem? Do I need to file a bug somewhere?
>> 
>> The exact problem is that the shortcuts (seemingly) fail to trigger
>> their associated actions. Example, Ctrl+C fails to copy the selected
>> text. Right-click then selecting 'Copy' always seems to work however.
>> 
>> It is quite an annoying problem to have in an IDE.
>  
> bugs filed?  (I'd first suspect an eclipse issue, or perhaps a genuine
> klipper conflict of some sort).

Found this, that looks like it clearly describes the problem, and provides 
several workarounds:
http://techtavern.wordpress.com/2008/08/10/fixing-copy-paste-issues-on-
eclipse-and-kde/

-- Rex