the bug persists on my system with or without any clipboard manager or
extension installed. And others have reported the behavior in default
installs. so I feel a bit skeptical that a clipboard manager or extension
is implicated.

On Tue, Apr 28, 2020, 09:46 Eike Rathke <1852...@bugs.launchpad.net>
wrote:

> (In reply to larrybradley from comment #25)
> > Interesting attitude. If you buy a Toyota and the engine goes bad, do you
> > expect Toyota to say, "Sorry, not our problem, they sold us bad engines."
> Interesting approach. I hate car allegories, but the broken part is not
> even part of the car. So if the bridge you want to ride over is broken you
> go to the car manufacturer and tell him to make your car fly.
>
> > Your name is on the product. The product is broken.
> No, the clipboard manager of the compositor of your window manager of your
> operating system is broken. That's why there is the Mutter bug linked and
> this bug here is flagged as notourbug.
>
> Additional findings from the linked Mutter bug are that the problem
> seems to be (also) related to the Clipboard Indicator GNOME Shell
> Extension, see already comment 7 here, so you may want to remove that.
>
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> Title:
>   [X11] copy/paste (clipboard) is broken in Ubuntu 19.10 & 20.04
>
> Status in LibreOffice:
>   Won't Fix
> Status in Mutter:
>   Unknown
> Status in mutter package in Ubuntu:
>   Fix Committed
> Status in mutter source package in Eoan:
>   Triaged
> Status in mutter source package in Focal:
>   Fix Committed
>
> Bug description:
>   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.
>
>   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://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/213510/copypaste-issues-
>   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://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=GNOME-3.34
>   -Clipboard-Manager
>
>   It seems like that could be related.
>
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