[upstream] Flameshot won't paste on Chrome with Ozone enabled

[otheos]

This is a unique problem to Ubuntu 21.04 and later and all derivatives (pop, mint etc).

Since Chrome stable 91, when Ozone was enabled by default, unless Ozone is disabled in Chrome, flameshot (any version) cannot paste on sites such as github, gitlab or kami.

The workaround has been so far to disable Ozone in Chrome flags, but since Chrome 95, Ozone cannot be disabled, which means that flameshot no longer works with Chrome and those (and potentially more) sites.

Everything works fine in Fedora 33/34/35 and Manjaro 20+.

Thank you.

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[otheos (ubuntu-otheos)]

Link to flameshot's github page:

https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/21/22732336/microsoft-windows-11-amd-cpu-performance-issues-fix-release

[Olivier Tilloy (osomon)]

This appears to be a known upstream regression: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1247919.

[otheos (ubuntu-otheos)]

Thanks for this! It seems promising, although the last post was over a month ago, and C95 is out, and the workaround to disable Ozone is gone, which means effectively pasting is done with C95 on Ubuntu and derivatives.

On a personal note it is Kami (a teaching tool) that is more important that pasting doesn't work (with flameshot).

Finally, why only Ubuntu? How come even with Ozone enabled, all versions of Chrome have no issue on non Ubuntu distributions?

Thanks again.

[Olivier Tilloy (osomon)]

Is this chrome, or chromium?

[otheos (ubuntu-otheos)]

Chrome.

[Olivier Tilloy (osomon)]

The chrome package is made and supported by Google, not by Ubuntu developers. You'll have more luck discussing this on the upstream bug report.

[otheos (ubuntu-otheos)]

Thanks.

However this issue is unique to Ubuntu and derivatives. Other distributions have not been affected with or without Ozone enabled in Chrome.

Thanks again.