Copy/paste still sometimes fails in LibreOffice and Wine apps
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Mutter |
Fix Released
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Unknown
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mutter (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Unassigned | ||
Focal |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Marco Trevisan (Treviño) |
Bug Description
In Ubuntu 19.10 and 20.04 there was a bug that caused copy and paste operations to fail pretty often: the text that was pasted was not the text that was just copied. See the long discussion at bug #1852183. The bug was recently marked closed, since the package mutter - 3.36.2-
Unfortunately the bug still exists, and is not difficult to reproduce. I am running Ubuntu 20.04 and have the new 3.36.2-
Now, an error rate of 1 in 20 may not seem so bad. On the other hand, if you spend all day writing a document and copy and paste dozens of times during the day, then you may hit this bug multiple times per day (as I have been recently), which is a significant annoyance.
I tested in LibreOffice since that is where I have seen the bug most often, but I have also seen it occur in other applications as well.
description: | updated |
Changed in mutter (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
Changed in mutter: | |
status: | Unknown → New |
Changed in mutter: | |
status: | New → Fix Released |
tags: | added: fixed-in-3.36.5 |
Changed in mutter (Ubuntu Focal): | |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
status: | New → Fix Committed |
assignee: | nobody → Marco Trevisan (Treviño) (3v1n0) |
status: | Fix Committed → Triaged |
summary: |
- copy/paste still sometimes fails in LibreOffice on mutter 3.36.2 + Copy/paste still sometimes fails in LibreOffice and Wine apps |
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.