Copy and paste broken after using input method

This bug affects me as well. I have detailed this behavior in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pidgin/+bug/486482 and will make it depend on this one (presuming I have the privs to do so).

Output when this occurred from terminal window:
QClipboard::setData: Cannot set X11 selection owner for PRIMARY
QClipboard::setData: Cannot set X11 selection owner for CLIPBOARD

Hi,
I had to upgrade the whole OS to Karmic since this was the only option to get updated applications in Ubuntu.

Now i have no way to cut-and-paste between my PyQt4-based Japanese dictionary and other applications.

Highlighting and Ctrl-C (copy) outputs respectively outputs:
QClipboard::setData: Cannot set X11 selection owner for PRIMARY
and QClipboard::setData: Cannot set X11 selection owner for CLIPBOARD

I hope the repos will be updated soon, as this bug was fixed elsewhere, and it makes some software unusable.

Thanks !

To me, this is actually the most annoying bug in Karmic!
It's just amazing how helpless one becomes, when copy and paste doesn't work. The computer literally becomes unusable!

After booting, copy and paste will actually work.
After using IBus (in my case to type japanese) in GTK applications, copy and paste will still work.
But: after using IBus in a Qt application, I get "QClipboard::setData: Cannot set X11 selection owner for PRIMARY", and copy and paste will no longer work.

I type quite a bit of japanese each day so I am also very much ennoyed (more over this problem appears also with french characters like ê).
I got a small turn-around that allege the problem a bit :
in my ~/bin I have a no_uim command :

#!/bin/bash

export XMODIFIERS=""
export GTK_IM_MODULE=""
export XIM_PROGRAM=""
export QT_IM_MODULE=""

exec $@

I launch all QT apps and also firefox (which is crash ware with uim turned on) with the command
#no_uim name_of_my_app

I use gedit to type japanese text and then paste it in uim disabled apps.

Hope it helps,

What, writing everything in gedit, then copy-pasting that into firefox, pidgin, Anki, etc? *shudder* You have way more patience than I do.

I managed to fix this issue on my system some time ago, but don't remember exactly how I did. Perhaps by installing newer packages? Writing french characters works well too now.

FYI, here is my env:
GTK_IM_MODULE=ibus
XMODIFIERS=@im=ibus
QT_IM_MODULE=ibus

And my ibus related packages:
ii ibus 1.2.0.20090927-2ubuntu2 New input method framework using dbus
ii ibus-anthy 1.2.0.20090813-2 anthy engine for IBus
un ibus-chewing <none> (no description available)
ii ibus-gtk 1.2.0.20090927-2ubuntu2 New input method framework using dbus
un ibus-hangul <none> (no description available)
un ibus-m17n <none> (no description available)
un ibus-pinyin <none> (no description available)
ii ibus-qt4 1.2.0.20091014-1 qt-immodule for ibus (QT4)
un ibus-table <none> (no description available)
ii libibus-qt1 1.2.0.20091014-1 qt-immodule for ibus (QT4)
ii libibus1 1.2.0.20090927-2ubuntu2 New input method framework using dbus
ii python-ibus 1.2.0.20090927-2ubuntu2 New input method framework using dbus

qt4-x11 is still 4.5.3really4.5.2-0ubuntu1

Fixed in Qt 4.5.3/4.6.0