239083 - Unable to copy to clipboard while having a MS Terminal open

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 84973

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Tom Sommer]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8

While introducing firefox to my co-workers, I found a very annoying bug.
When a MS (Remote desktop) Terminal is open, along with Firefox - one is unable
to copy within firefox, firefox is the only application on my desktop which gets
these "symptoms" while having a terminal open.

Note, I am not talking about running firefox on a terminal, rather having a
terminal window open alongside firefox.

Also note that this bug is something which I now hear about all the time from my
co-workers (something they are extremely annoyed by), therefore I would describe
it as a somewhat high-priority end-user problem

Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open a terminal window
2. Open firefox
3. Copy something withing firefox
4. Try and paste it into notepad
Actual Results:  
Nothing appears to be copied

Expected Results:  
The pastes text should appear in the window

I think this could be related with an application being run when one start a
terminal window. This application looks to be some kind of a key-catcher,
managing copy/paste from the terminal window to the desktop, perhaps this
application (or firefox) is the cause of this problem. Will return with more
info on this.

Comment 1

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

Can you reproduce this with the Mozilla app suite?

Comment 2

[Mark]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Can you reproduce this with the Mozilla app suite?

I have tested and was unable to recreate this issue with XP Pro, Service Pack 
2 and all other updated patches.

I opened a remote desktop connection to another pc on the network with the 
default settings. 

Once I did this, I opened Firefox Version 9.3 and went to random web pages, 
copied text and successfully pasted this text into notepad, wordpad, msword
(XP) and OpenOffice 1.1.2.

I also tried to recreate the issue without success by adjusting all remote 
desktop options without any success.

Does this issue arise when copying and pasting into wordpad or any other word 
processor also?

Comment 3

[jt]

This happens for text in the URL bar or form fields. 
I also tested with the newer 'Remote Desktop Connection' software in addtion to
'Terminal Services Client' and the same thing happens. To copy a URL I have to
right click in the browser, view page info, then copy URL from pop-up.

Comment 4

[David Harrison]

I have similar problems with Firefox v1.0PR (Windows XP Pro, SP2). It is
intermittent - sometimes it will work, then others copy to clipboard simply
fails. If I click on the Terminal Server session in the task bar to foreground
it then click again to background it, I can try and copy/paste again and it
almost always will work again for a while, until the next time it stops working. 

Happens regardless of whether "apply windows key combinations" is set to local
or remote as well. 

Killing 'rdpclip.exe' (the RDP clipboard thing that allows copying and pasting)
seems to prevent it from happening - just tested then, having problems with
copy/paste then killed rdpclip.exe. Immediately had no problems - restarted
rdpclip.exe and still had no problems, but thought that might be a limitation of
the Remote Desktop software, so I reconnected the session, and then copy/paste
stopped working again. 

Comment 5

[pinformaticien]

I've got the same issue with Windows 2000 SP4, Firefox 1.0, when a terminal
server  session is opened. This problem concerns only the following acitons :
 - Copy URL in address bar
 - Copy text from Textbox
 - Use "Copy Image Location", "Copy Link Location"
 - Copy data from "image properties" (for example try to copy the image URL)

Copying text from the page body works well, even if the symptoms described above
are encountered. This problem is intermittent (so it could be hard to
reproduce), but happens really often.

Comment 6

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 84973 ***