Copying (parts of) image in XnView causes KDE to freeze after closing XnView
Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2025 8:48 am
Hi,
I encounter the following reproducible behaviour that I think is caused by something in XnView MP:
When I open an image with XnView, select a part of that image and copy it (Ctrl + C), then close XnView, KDE Plasma freezes for a couple seconds. Usually I am in Dolphin in a folder with image files and I immediately notice I can't select another file. Plasma always unfreezes after a couple seconds.
This happens in 100% of the cases where I copied something, sometimes also when I just used XnView to look at images. Therefore I am not sure if it is related to the clipboard. However, the content of the clipboard is gone after I closed XnView.
The images are of normal size (less than 5 MB JPG).
I cannot reproduce this behaviour on the same system with another image viewer so I guess XnView does something or doesn't do something that is causing this, but unfortunately, I don't really know what to check. I'm happy to help figure it out if you have any suggestions where to investigate and I appreciate any help.
This is XnViewMP 1.8.6 on SteamOS, which is based on Arch Linux.
I encounter the following reproducible behaviour that I think is caused by something in XnView MP:
When I open an image with XnView, select a part of that image and copy it (Ctrl + C), then close XnView, KDE Plasma freezes for a couple seconds. Usually I am in Dolphin in a folder with image files and I immediately notice I can't select another file. Plasma always unfreezes after a couple seconds.
This happens in 100% of the cases where I copied something, sometimes also when I just used XnView to look at images. Therefore I am not sure if it is related to the clipboard. However, the content of the clipboard is gone after I closed XnView.
The images are of normal size (less than 5 MB JPG).
I cannot reproduce this behaviour on the same system with another image viewer so I guess XnView does something or doesn't do something that is causing this, but unfortunately, I don't really know what to check. I'm happy to help figure it out if you have any suggestions where to investigate and I appreciate any help.
This is XnViewMP 1.8.6 on SteamOS, which is based on Arch Linux.