Diodon

Not working with Ubuntu 17.10

Asked by giri Rao

Diodon not working with Ubuntu 17.10. It launches and the paper clip sits at the top right, but Ctrl C neither copies to it, nor Ctrl V pastes the text in any box. Also, after you try it once, Diodon crashes and the paper clip disappears.

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Oliver Sauder (sao) said : 		#1

I have tested it with 17.10 in a VirtualBox. It seems to work fine here and I couldn't reproduce your issue.

Could you try following commands:

killall diodon
G_MESSAGES_DEBUG=all diodon > diodon_debug.txt

Now start using Diodon till it crashes and attach the log file. Thanks.

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giri Rao (agiridhar-rao) said : 		#2

Tried the commands you suggested. diodon_debug.txt is presumably the log file? Nothing gets written to it. Diodon crashes, but that file remains empty.

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giri Rao (agiridhar-rao) said : 		#3

After Diodon crashes, the Terminal says "Segmentation fault (core dumped)".

(I installed ClipIt since Diodon wasn't working. ClipIt works fine.)

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Oliver Sauder (sao) said : 		#4

I was able to reproduce the issue on another machine. It seems that the problem is Wayland. When I start Gnome in a xorg session Diodon seems to work.

I linked a issue addressing this issue. It is not gonna be that easy though as Diodon relies on quite a few X features (e.g. for instant pasting etc.)

How to start in Xorg session can be found here:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/961304/how-do-you-switch-from-wayland-back-to-xorg-in-ubuntu-17-10

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