I enabled proposed but 46.2-1ubuntu0.24.04.7 won't install, so I used
"sudo apt install mutter=46.2-1ubuntu0.24.04.7" to force mutter to
upgrade to 0.24.04.7.
However, the issue remains, i.e. selecting text in firefox and pasting
to terminal won't work.
$ apt policy mutter
mutter:
Installed: 46.2-1ubuntu0.24.04.7
Candidate: 46.2-1ubuntu0.24.04.7
Version table:
*** 46.2-1ubuntu0.24.04.7 100
100 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-proposed/universe amd64
Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
46.2-1ubuntu0.24.04.6 500
500 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-updates/universe amd64
Packages
46.0-1ubuntu9 500
500 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble/universe amd64 Packages
$ apt info mutter
Package: mutter
Version: 46.2-1ubuntu0.24.04.7
Priority: extra
Section: universe/x11
Can you give it a try on your end?
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2085634
Title:
Middle mouse click paste is broken across different applications in
Ubuntu 24.04
Status in Mutter:
Fix Released
Status in mutter package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Status in mutter source package in Noble:
Fix Committed
Status in mutter source package in Oracular:
Fix Released
Status in mutter source package in Plucky:
Fix Released
Bug description:
[ Impact ]
In a GNOME Wayland session, middle mouse click sometimes fails to
paste the selected text from one application to another.
This seems to affect GTK3 applications in particular, while GTK4
applications behave correctly. Nonetheless, the bug originates in
mutter, the Wayland compositor library.
Here is the upstream bug report:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/3498
[ Test Plan ]
1. Open a URL (e.g., www.ubuntu.com) in Firefox
2. Open Terminal
3. Select any text in Firefox
4. Without unselecting the text, use Alt+Tab to switch focus to Terminal
5. Click middle mouse button to paste in Terminal
6. Verify that the text you had just selected was inserted
7. Select other text in Firefox
8. Without unselecting the text, use Alt+Tab to switch focus to Terminal
9. Click middle mouse button to paste in Terminal
10. Verify that the new text was inserted, and not the previous one.
[ Where problems could occur ]
mutter is the component of GNOME driving the screen and inputs, and
thus is a critical component of Ubuntu Desktop.
Problems could manifest with the selection-paste action not working
anymore, or at worst the user may be suddenly logged-out in case GNOME
Shell crashes because of a bug introduced by this patch.
The patch also applies the same fix to the clipboard selection (the
data explicitly copied with Ctrl+C), so regressions may also manifest
in the clipboard copy/paste actions. This is more a theoretical fix,
as I wasn't able to reproduce the issue with the clipboard selection,
similarly to how GTK4 applications do not seem to be affected by the
same problem with selection-paste
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