weird scripting bug/crash with xsel?

[chconnor]

I make this script with appropriate execution permission:

#!/bin/bash
rm /tmp/got_here /tmp/xsel.txt > /dev/null 2>&1
xsel -b > /tmp/xsel.txt
touch /tmp/got_here

If I run it from a terminal, it works as expected: /tmp/xsel.txt has the clipboard contents and /tmp/got_here appears.

If I associate it with a keyboard shortcut via Settings -> Shortcuts -> Custom Shortcuts -> Edit -> New -> Global Shortcut -> Command/URL, something odd happens. It seems to "crash" or otherwise die after xsel is run. The result is that xsel.txt appears with the contents of the clipboard, but got_here does not appear. (This is a stripped-down version of a script I'm working just to demo the issue.)

Any ideas?

Thanks!

edit: update -- my script seems to work if I use xclip instead of xsel... which is great and all but if this is a kubuntu bug I'd like to file it...

[chconnor]

Bug filed: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=437003