The default global clipboard sometimes stops working in Vim

[matemat13]

Symptoms: Copy some text e.g. in Firefox. Go to Vim or Athame shell in Normal mode, press p - a random thing gets pasted (not the one which was copied). Using the Vim sequence "+p or `"*p" gets the desired result (pasting the copied text). This seems to affect all Vim instances - old and new - after some time of normal working.

Expected behavior: The global clipboard should be used by default in linux-setup Vim all the time.

Ways to reproduce: Unknown.

[klaxalk]

Ok, I have found out, that the problem with clipboard and athame rises from "Vim". If you have vim, installed from repositories, it does not have the "--servename" option, which probably causes the problem. So test, which vim you have (:version). If it is 8.0, its wrong. Then install vim using the ./install.sh and report pls.

[klaxalk]

This might happen because I added the "uninstall vim" option to the install script of "neovim". However, we still need vim for athame... so I am removing it now.

[matemat13]

... test, which vim you have (:version) ...

neovim version:

:version                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
NVIM v0.3.2-dev                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
Build type: RelWithDebInfo                                                                                                                                                                                                                     
Lua 5.1                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
Compilation: /usr/bin/cc -g -O2 -fdebug-prefix-map=/build/neovim-Y37o5P/neovim-0.3.0~ubuntu1+git201808202018-768bc68-479a1d0=. -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wconversion -U_FORTIFY_SOURCE -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=1 -O2
 -g -DMIN_LOG_LEVEL=3 -Og -g -Wall -Wextra -pedantic -Wno-unused-parameter -Wstrict-prototypes -std=gnu99 -Wimplicit-fallthrough -Wvla -fstack-protector-strong -fdiagnostics-color=auto -Wno-array-bounds -DINCLUDE_GENERATED_DECLARATIONS -D_
GNU_SOURCE -DNVIM_MSGPACK_HAS_FLOAT32 -DNVIM_UNIBI_HAS_VAR_FROM -I/build/neovim-Y37o5P/neovim-0.3.0~ubuntu1+git201808202018-768bc68-479a1d0/build/config -I/build/neovim-Y37o5P/neovim-0.3.0~ubuntu1+git201808202018-768bc68-479a1d0/src -I/bui
ld/neovim-Y37o5P/neovim-0.3.0~ubuntu1+git201808202018-768bc68-479a1d0/.deps/usr/include -I/usr/include -I/build/neovim-Y37o5P/neovim-0.3.0~ubuntu1+git201808202018-768bc68-479a1d0/build/src/nvim/auto -I/build/neovim-Y37o5P/neovim-0.3.0~ubun
tu1+git201808202018-768bc68-479a1d0/build/include                                                                                                                                                                                              
Compiled by buildd@lgw01-amd64-044                                                                                                                                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
Features: +acl +iconv +jemalloc +tui                                                                                                                                                                                                           
See ":help feature-compile"                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
   system vimrc file: "$VIM/sysinit.vim"                                                                                                                                                                                                       
  fall-back for $VIM: "/usr/share/nvim"

vim version:

:version
VIM - Vi IMproved 8.1 (2018 May 17, compiled Sep  4 2018 10:46:56)
Compiled by matous@UltraPrcek-Linux
Huge version with GTK2 GUI.  Features included (+) or not (-):
+acl               +clientserver      +dialog_con_gui    +find_in_path      +keymap            +modify_fname      +multi_byte        +profile           +statusline        +textobjects       +wildignore
+arabic            +clipboard         +diff              +float             +lambda            +mouse             +multi_lang        -python            -sun_workshop      +timers            +wildmenu
+autocmd           +cmdline_compl     +digraphs          +folding           +langmap           +mouseshape        -mzscheme          +python3           +syntax            +title             +windows
-autoservername    +cmdline_hist      +dnd               -footer            +libcall           +mouse_dec         +netbeans_intg     +quickfix          +tag_binary        +toolbar           +writebackup
+balloon_eval      +cmdline_info      -ebcdic            +fork()            +linebreak         -mouse_gpm         +num64             +reltime           +tag_old_static    +user_commands     +X11
+balloon_eval_term +comments          +emacs_tags        +gettext           +lispindent        -mouse_jsbterm     +packages          +rightleft         -tag_any_white     +vertsplit         -xfontset
+browse            +conceal           +eval              -hangul_input      +listcmds          +mouse_netterm     +path_extra        -ruby              -tcl               +virtualedit       +xim
++builtin_terms    +cryptv            +ex_extra          +iconv             +localmap          +mouse_sgr         -perl              +scrollbind        +termguicolors     +visual            +xpm
+byte_offset       +cscope            +extra_search      +insert_expand     -lua               -mouse_sysmouse    +persistent_undo   +signs             +terminal          +visualextra       +xsmp_interact
+channel           +cursorbind        +farsi             +job               +menu              +mouse_urxvt       +postscript        +smartindent       +terminfo          +viminfo           +xterm_clipboard
+cindent           +cursorshape       +file_in_path      +jumplist          +mksession         +mouse_xterm       +printer           +startuptime       +termresponse      +vreplace          -xterm_save
   system vimrc file: "$VIM/vimrc"
     user vimrc file: "$HOME/.vimrc"
 2nd user vimrc file: "~/.vim/vimrc"
      user exrc file: "$HOME/.exrc"
  system gvimrc file: "$VIM/gvimrc"
    user gvimrc file: "$HOME/.gvimrc"
2nd user gvimrc file: "~/.vim/gvimrc"
       defaults file: "$VIMRUNTIME/defaults.vim"
    system menu file: "$VIMRUNTIME/menu.vim"
  fall-back for $VIM: "/usr/share/vim"
Compilation: gcc -c -I. -Iproto -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DFEAT_GUI_GTK  -pthread -I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gtk-2.0/include -I/usr/include/gio-unix-2.0/ -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/atk-1.0 -
I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/pixman-1 -I/usr/include/gdk-pixbuf-2.0 -I/usr/include/libpng16 -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/harfbuzz -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/glib-2.0/includ
e -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/libpng16 -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/libpng16   -g -O2 -U_FORTIFY_SOURCE -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=1
Linking: gcc   -L/usr/local/lib -Wl,--as-needed -o vim   -lgtk-x11-2.0 -lgdk-x11-2.0 -lpangocairo-1.0 -latk-1.0 -lcairo -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lgio-2.0 -lpangoft2-1.0 -lpango-1.0 -lgobject-2.0 -lglib-2.0 -lfontconfig -lfreetype -lSM -lICE -lXpm
 -lXt -lX11 -lXdmcp -lSM -lICE  -lm -ltinfo -lnsl  -lselinux  -ldl     -L/usr/lib/python3.5/config-3.5m-x86_64-linux-gnu -lpython3.6m

I'll try pulling linux-setup and rerunning the install script for neovim and vim.

[klaxalk]

Hmm, if it has a problem even with Vim, then the solution might be more complicated. I will try to solve it..