If Putty is running on the 2nd monitor selecting text causes an immediate crash

Bug #750661 reported by gjarboni
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: putty

If you launch putty from the 2nd monitor and select text by click dragging, then putty immediately crashes. A work-around is to launch putty once from the 1st monitor. If you do this subsequent putty sessions on the 2nd monitor won't crash.

root@jmitchel-desktop:/home/jmitchel# apt-cache policy putty
putty:
  Installed: 0.60+2010-02-20-1
  Candidate: 0.60+2010-02-20-1
  Version table:
 *** 0.60+2010-02-20-1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/universe i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: putty 0.60+2010-02-20-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-28.50-generic-pae 2.6.35.11
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-28-generic-pae i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Apr 4 15:19:03 2011
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: putty

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gjarboni (jmitchel) wrote :
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gjarboni (jmitchel) wrote :

To add detail this happens if each monitor is a separate instance of X Windows.

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