I have just started having this problem, having updated to 20.04. So far I have only encountered it with libreoffice writer, about 30% of the time I copy/cut and paste (whether by menu or keyboard shortcuts). I do this a lot due to the nature of my writing.
This is the first time since I moved to ubuntu many years ago that I have encountered a bug that causes me to wonder whether to continue with it. It's driving me crazy every hour of every day. To those who are unsure if it is a real problem, there's a video of it happening at https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=133029 It has been said that the vanilla build of libreoffice doesn't have this problem, so I'll have to try that. Until my report #1879078 was marked as a duplicate of this bug I had no idea that it was so common in ubuntu. In my view this is really serious. I my case I am on X11, and the problem affects Libreoffice Version: 6.4.3.2 Build ID: 1:6.4.3-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 5.4; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3; Locale: en-GB (en_GB.UTF-8); UI-Language: en-GB Calc: threaded ** Bug watch added: Document Foundation Bugzilla #133029 https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=133029 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to mutter in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1852183 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 Eoan: Triaged 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 ----- 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. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/df-libreoffice/+bug/1852183/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
