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Bug 778979 - [Wayland] Clipboard interaction with XWayland open-source program "keepass" randomly breaks with keepass maintaining a shadow clipboard that doesn't update / isn't in sync with wayland apps
[Wayland] Clipboard interaction with XWayland open-source program "keepass" r...
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gnome-shell
Classification: Core
Component: general
3.22.x
Other Linux
: Normal major
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Assigned To: gnome-shell-maint
gnome-shell-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2017-02-20 21:08 UTC by el
Modified: 2021-07-05 14:46 UTC
See Also:
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Description el 2017-02-20 21:08:43 UTC 
The clipboard interaction with XWayland open-source program "keepass" randomly breaks with keepass maintaining a shadow clipboard that doesn't update / isn't in sync with wayland apps.

Sometimes it works fine, but sometimes copying something in keepass won't update the clipboard for any Wayland-native apps (like gnome-terminal) and then pasting in any XWayland app like Firefox stable (official build without Wayland backend enabled) will paste the newly copied password or element from keepass, while pasting in any Wayland-native app like gnome-terminal as shipped GNOME 3 will paste outdated unchanged clipboard contents.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Start GNOME 3 Wayland session
2. Install & Open keepass
3. Add at least one password
4. Use right-click copy password
5. Trigger paste in gnome-terminal (which should paste password in plain text)

Expected behavior:
Password is pasted in plain text into gnome-terminal

Actual behavior:
Password is sometimes pasted in plain text, but sometimes it also pastes what was previously in the clipboard (e.g. also nothing)

Fedora bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1285342
XWayland bug (since I didn't know if this is a GNOME 3 or XWayland issue): https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=99853
Possibly related clipboard weirdness bug: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=776638
Comment 1 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2021-07-05 14:46:49 UTC 
GNOME is going to shut down bugzilla.gnome.org in favor of  gitlab.gnome.org.
As part of that, we are mass-closing older open tickets in bugzilla.gnome.org
which have not seen updates for a longer time (resources are unfortunately
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