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Bug 763738 - Clipboard sometimes not shared with other applications
Clipboard sometimes not shared with other applications
Status: RESOLVED NOTGNOME
Product: epiphany
Classification: Core
Component: General
3.19.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Epiphany Maintainers
Epiphany Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2016-03-16 09:47 UTC by Allan Day
Modified: 2016-03-24 13:52 UTC
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Description Allan Day 2016-03-16 09:47:36 UTC 
The clipboard often isn't shared with GTK+ widgets. I'm not sure what the exact logic is, but I'm often unable to copy text from gedit or even from Epiphany's URL field into a webpage. When it happens, it's as if Epiphany has its own clipboard, which is stuck on whatever I had copied in there last (typically text from another web page).

This issue often combines with bug 763737: it means that I can't copy/paste the text into gedit in order to clear the formatting, before pasting it back into a web page.
Comment 1 Michael Catanzaro 2016-03-16 14:08:27 UTC 
Are you running under Wayland? We don't support copy/paste under Wayland yet, unfortunately.
Comment 2 Michael Catanzaro 2016-03-24 01:50:29 UTC 
Pretty sure you're running under Wayland; I've never had any issues with clipboard under X11. Hopefully we'll get this done next cycle....
Comment 3 Michael Gratton 2016-03-24 03:02:08 UTC 
I experience this under X11, the symptoms do feel a lot like the broken clipboard under Wayland however (e.g. what I reported in https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=150316)

Don't think this is an Ephy problem though, because I'm pretty sure it also happens with Geary. If so, it means it's a pretty long standing issue in WebKitGTK.

Probably never reported it because I don't know how to reproduce it.
Comment 4 Michael Catanzaro 2016-03-24 13:52:02 UTC 
(In reply to Michael Gratton from comment #3)
> I experience this under X11,

Uh-oh.

> the symptoms do feel a lot like the broken
> clipboard under Wayland however (e.g. what I reported in
> https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=150316)
> 
> Don't think this is an Ephy problem though, because I'm pretty sure it also
> happens with Geary. If so, it means it's a pretty long standing issue in
> WebKitGTK.
> 
> Probably never reported it because I don't know how to reproduce it.

It's strange as I've used Epiphany for years without noticing this, but that's not so unusual if it's a race. We did have a bug where data would be lost from the clipboard when closing the browser tab, but that's been fixed for a while.