This bug affects me as well. However, instead of seeing nothing as the OP, the selected text is replaced by a (seemingly unrenderable) character (but it's not in the clipboard). See the attached screenshot
$ apt-cache policy unity unity: Installed: 3.8.12-0ubuntu1 Candidate: 3.8.12-0ubuntu1 Version table: *** 3.8.12-0ubuntu1 0 500 http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/ubuntu/archive/ natty-updates/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 3.8.10-0ubuntu2 0 500 http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/ubuntu/archive/ natty/main amd64 Packages
This bug affects me as well. However, instead of seeing nothing as the OP, the selected text is replaced by a (seemingly unrenderable) character (but it's not in the clipboard). See the attached screenshot
$ apt-cache policy unity gd.tuwien. ac.at/opsys/ linux/ubuntu/ archive/ natty-updates/main amd64 Packages dpkg/status 8.10-0ubuntu2 0 gd.tuwien. ac.at/opsys/ linux/ubuntu/ archive/ natty/main amd64 Packages
unity:
Installed: 3.8.12-0ubuntu1
Candidate: 3.8.12-0ubuntu1
Version table:
*** 3.8.12-0ubuntu1 0
500 http://
100 /var/lib/
3.
500 http://