[X11] copy/paste (clipboard) with LibreOffice is broken in Ubuntu 19.10 & 20.04 (see comment 93 and 176)
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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LibreOffice |
Won't Fix
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Medium
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Mutter |
Fix Released
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Unknown
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mutter (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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High
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Unassigned | ||
Focal |
Fix Released
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High
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Unassigned | ||
Groovy |
Fix Released
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High
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Unassigned |
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:/
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:/
It seems like that could be related.
summary: |
- copy/paste (clipboard) is broken in Ubuntu 19.10 + [X11] copy/paste (clipboard) is broken in Ubuntu 19.10 |
Changed in mutter: | |
status: | Unknown → New |
tags: | added: rls-ee-incoming rls-ff-incoming |
Changed in df-libreoffice: | |
importance: | Unknown → Medium |
status: | Unknown → New |
Changed in libreoffice (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → High |
Changed in mutter (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → High |
Changed in df-libreoffice: | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
tags: | removed: rls-ee-incoming rls-ff-incoming |
Changed in libreoffice (Ubuntu Eoan): | |
importance: | Undecided → High |
Changed in mutter (Ubuntu Eoan): | |
importance: | Undecided → High |
assignee: | nobody → Marco Trevisan (Treviño) (3v1n0) |
Changed in libreoffice (Ubuntu Eoan): | |
assignee: | nobody → Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson) |
Changed in mutter (Ubuntu Eoan): | |
status: | New → Triaged |
Changed in libreoffice (Ubuntu Eoan): | |
status: | New → Triaged |
tags: | added: eoan |
Changed in mutter: | |
status: | New → Fix Released |
tags: | added: focal |
tags: | added: fixed-in-3.35.90 fixed-upstream |
Changed in libreoffice (Ubuntu Eoan): | |
assignee: | Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson) → Heather Ellsworth (hellsworth) |
Changed in libreoffice (Ubuntu Focal): | |
assignee: | nobody → Heather Ellsworth (hellsworth) |
Changed in mutter (Ubuntu Focal): | |
status: | Triaged → Fix Released |
summary: |
- [X11] copy/paste (clipboard) is broken in Ubuntu 19.10 + [X11] copy/paste (clipboard) is broken in Ubuntu 19.10 & 20.04 |
tags: | removed: fixed-in-3.35.90 fixed-upstream |
Changed in codelite (Ubuntu Eoan): | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Changed in codelite (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Changed in codeblocks (Ubuntu Eoan): | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Changed in codeblocks (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Changed in mutter (Ubuntu Focal): | |
status: | Fix Released → Fix Committed |
no longer affects: | libreoffice (Ubuntu) |
no longer affects: | libreoffice (Ubuntu Eoan) |
no longer affects: | libreoffice (Ubuntu Focal) |
no longer affects: | codelite (Ubuntu) |
no longer affects: | codelite (Ubuntu Eoan) |
no longer affects: | codelite (Ubuntu Focal) |
no longer affects: | codeblocks (Ubuntu) |
no longer affects: | codeblocks (Ubuntu Eoan) |
no longer affects: | codeblocks (Ubuntu Focal) |
Changed in mutter: | |
status: | Fix Released → Unknown |
tags: | added: fixed-in-3.36.2 fixed-upstream |
Changed in df-libreoffice: | |
status: | Confirmed → Won't Fix |
summary: |
- [X11] copy/paste (clipboard) is broken in Ubuntu 19.10 & 20.04 + [X11] copy/paste (clipboard) is broken in Ubuntu 19.10 & 20.04 (see + comment 93) |
tags: | added: fixed-in-3.34.6 |
Changed in mutter (Ubuntu Groovy): | |
status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
description: | updated |
tags: | added: verification-needed verification-needed-focal |
tags: |
added: verification-failed-focal removed: verification-needed-focal |
tags: |
added: verification-needed-focal removed: verification-failed-focal |
tags: |
added: verification-done-focal removed: verification-needed-focal |
summary: |
- [X11] copy/paste (clipboard) is broken in Ubuntu 19.10 & 20.04 (see - comment 93) + [X11] copy/paste (clipboard) with LibreOffice is broken in Ubuntu 19.10 + & 20.04 (see comment 93) |
summary: |
[X11] copy/paste (clipboard) with LibreOffice is broken in Ubuntu 19.10 - & 20.04 (see comment 93) + & 20.04 (see comment 93 and 176) |
affects: | mutter (Ubuntu Focal) → focal (Ubuntu Focal) |
affects: | focal (Ubuntu) → mutter (Ubuntu) |
Changed in df-libreoffice: | |
status: | Won't Fix → Confirmed |
Changed in df-libreoffice: | |
status: | Confirmed → Won't Fix |
Changed in mutter: | |
status: | Unknown → Fix Released |
I now believe this problem is not specific to LibreOffice. I see it there often since I use LibreOffice Writer a lot, but it just happened again when I cut some text in Geany (a text editor) and attempted to paste it into the email program Geary. So I think this is a general clipboard problem in Ubuntu 19.10.
Given that, I will change the bug's title to remove the word "LibreOffice", and remove it from the libreoffice project.