I am on Ubuntu FF 20.04 using office 2010 via wine-stable 5.0, my system
is fully updated. The issue still persists when I am copying and pasting
any text within word 2010, with an interesting twist. Copying and
pasting works most of the times, but when I copy a portion of text
within Word 2010 using ctrl+C then delete it and try paste it, it always
fails. As if by deleting the text I just copied from the page I would
also delete its copy in the clipboard. When I am in Unity (yeah, I still
love and use Unity, even on 20.04) everything works as intended: you
copy a portion of the text and can always paste it, no matter what you
do to the original text. Hope this helps, this bug is so very annoying.

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Title:
  copy/paste still sometimes fails in LibreOffice on mutter 3.36.2

Status in Mutter:
  Unknown
Status in mutter package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  In Ubuntu 19.10 and 20.04 there was a bug that caused copy and paste
  operations to fail pretty often: the text that was pasted was not the
  text that was just copied.  See the long discussion at bug #1852183.
  The bug was recently marked closed, since the package mutter -
  3.36.2-1ubuntu1~20.04.1 landed in focal-updates and makes the bug
  occur much less frequently.

  Unfortunately the bug still exists, and is not difficult to reproduce.
  I am running Ubuntu 20.04 and have the new 3.36.2-1ubuntu1~20.04.1
  version of mutter.  I just opened two LibreOffice Writer windows side
  by side, and repeatedly selected some text in the left window, copied
  it, then attempted to paste it into the right window.  In my
  experiment, approximately 1 in every 20 paste operations failed: it
  did not paste the text that was just copied, but instead the text that
  was copied before that.

  Now, an error rate of 1 in 20 may not seem so bad.  On the other hand,
  if you spend all day writing a document and copy and paste dozens of
  times during the day, then you may hit this bug multiple times per day
  (as I have been recently), which is a significant annoyance.

  I tested in LibreOffice since that is where I have seen the bug most
  often, but I have also seen it occur in other applications as well.

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