Comment 172 for bug 1852183
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| ethanay (ethan-y-us) wrote Re: [Bug 1852183] Re: [X11] copy/paste (clipboard) with LibreOffice is broken in Ubuntu 19.10 & 20.04 (see comment 93) | #172 |
Tim, I don't know, I am just "another user"
But I appreciate you testing! For me, the pattern has always been quite
consistent for the first cut/copy to fail, and so is fairly easy for me to
test.
The different symptoms are curious, with it being very predictable for some
and random for others!
It is also interesting to me that the problem appears only in copying to
clipboard from some programs but not others.
Lastly, it is interesting that it was fixed first in some programs (eg for
me, LO calc) before others (LO Writer).
I don't know enough about how different sources for clipboard data interact
with the clipboard manager, but it leads me to believe there is actually
more than one clipboard bug. If so, it will take users being vigilant to
collect log and other debug info as they try to reproduce the more
intermittent symptoms, and submit in a different report.
On Wed, May 20, 2020, 00:35 Tim Passingham <email address hidden> wrote:
> Ethany - is there something else I can do? I've installed the proposed
> update, retested, and so far all seems well (as I said in #159).
>
> It's difficult to test and report on a problem which doesn't happen
> every time you do something. I never found a pattern to it, just when
> it did start to happen it was infuriating :-)
>
> As to why more people haven't reported and retested, I don't know.
> Maybe Libreoffice Fresh users on ubuntu 20.04 are still quite rare?
>
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> Title:
> [X11] copy/paste (clipboard) with LibreOffice is broken in Ubuntu
> 19.10 & 20.04 (see comment 93)
>
> Status in LibreOffice:
> Won't Fix
> Status in Mutter:
> Unknown
> Status in mutter package in Ubuntu:
> Fix Released
> Status in mutter source package in Focal:
> Fix Committed
> Status in mutter source package in Groovy:
> Fix Released
>
> Bug description:
> [ Impact ]
>
> I'm running LibreOffice 6.3.2.2 on Ubuntu 19.10.
>
> In this environment, copy/cut/paste often fails. Specifically, the
> paste command sometimes does not paste the text that was cut/copied
> most recently. Instead, it pastes text that was cut/copied at some
> prior time.
>
> [ Test case ]
>
> 1. Use use libreoffice writer/calc
> 2. Copy text around
> 3. Paste it and ensure it always work
>
> [ Regression potential ]
>
> Copy/paste won't work as expected, for non-text types
>
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>
>
> I use LibreOffice Writer a lot, and I now see this problem very often,
> i.e. many times every day.
>
> There is some discussion of the problem here:
>
> https:/
> libreoffice-calc/
>
> Several posters there say that they are also using Ubuntu 19.10.
>
> Ubuntu 19.10 includes Mutter 3.34, which has a new clipboard manager:
>
> https:/
> -Clipboard-Manager
>
> It seems like that could be related.
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