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[Richard Smith <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

Problems using nedit in Ubuntu 10.04 AMD64

Nedit works OK at first, then starts to malfunction.
Copy-paste by highlighting and middle-mouse click, or by menu, starts failing to work within the same window.
Meanwhile, copy-pasting from elsewhere (eg xterm window) DOES work. On another tab, everything seems normal.
Today I tried to close down the offending tab by right clicking on it. The result was that the mouse pointer was "trapped" within the tabs bar.
All I could do then was CNRTL-ALT F1 to do a text login and kill nedit.
In fact the X session on console F7 crashed before I managed to kill nedit, but that may be related to pulseaudio because I was playing music at the time.

Log message:

Aug 24 15:23:24 joseph kernel: [443474.418222] nedit[9190]: segfault at
2 ip 00007fee622493d9 sp 00007fff731f81e0 error 4 in
libXm.so.2.0.1[7fee62190000+163000]

A static build of an older nedit with motif has the same problem with a
right-click on tabs with 10.04. Not a problem with 8.04.

The right-click on a tab problems is reported separately as a bug in lesstif, but appears to be an Xorg problem.
See: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=543647
Looks like Redhat have a patch for this particular bug in Fedora, but judging by reversions there, it has not been fixed upstream in Xorg.

** Affects: libx11 (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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mouse pointer trapped in a window
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/625264
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