Copy/cut/paste is broken in wine applications

[Christian Hubmann]

Copy/cut/paste seems to be broken in wine applications.

Steps to reproduce:
- Install Ubuntu 20.04
- sudo apt install wine
- Download a Windows App like Notepad2 (x86 or x64 doesn't matter).
- wine Notepad2.exe
- Ctrl+A, Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V, pasting works
- Do Ctrl+A, Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V again, pasting is broken
- Ctrl+A, Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V, now it's working again. Do it again, it's broken again. It seems copy/paste only works every other time.

Some other observations:
- Using X11 or Wayland makes no difference
- The Windows application used makes no difference, I have the problem with every app I tried
- I upgraded to Ubuntu 20.10 beta. No change.
- I also tried Manjaro Gnome in a VM and it's the same problem there, so it's not just Ubuntu.
- I then installed Mate. I was not able to reproduce it, it's working 100% of the time in Mate. So this seems to be a problem with Gnome.

Tested on:
- Ubuntu 20.04 Focal on X11, Ryzen 7 2600X, 32GB, Nvidia RTX2060
- Ubuntu 20.10 Groovy on Wayland, Core i5-8250U, 8GB, Intel UHD Graphics 620
- Ubuntu 20.04 Focal in a VirtualBox VM on a Windows Host

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[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Charles Cunningham (d7-charles-4w)]

This problem is bad news for users of Office 2010 running under Wine on Ubuntu 20.04

The latest stable version of Wine seems to fix this issue:

fonts-wine 5.0-3ubuntu1
libkwineffects12 4:5.18.5-0ubuntu0.1
libwine:i386 5.0-3ubuntu1
wine-stable 5.0.1~focal
wine-stable-amd64 5.0.1~focal
wine-stable-i386:i386 5.0.1~focal
wine32:i386 5.0-3ubuntu1
winehq-stable 5.0.1~focal

Here are the instructions from https://wiki.winehq.org/Ubuntu to install the latest version:

If your system is 64 bit, enable 32 bit architecture (if you haven't already):

sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386

Download and add the repository key:

wget -O - https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/winehq.key | sudo apt-key add -

Add the repository:

For Ubuntu 20.04:
sudo add-apt-repository 'deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/focal main'

Update packages & then install:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install --install-recommends winehq-stable

[Davide (tarski10)]

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/1338