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Bug 779826 - Paste shortcuts are extremely broken
Paste shortcuts are extremely broken
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 730495
Product: geary
Classification: Other
Component: ux
0.11.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Geary Maintainers
Geary Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2017-03-10 00:05 UTC by Alex
Modified: 2018-01-11 04:45 UTC
See Also:
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Description Alex 2017-03-10 00:05:53 UTC 
I know that Geary has elected to go with Ctrl+V for paste without formatting by default, as in https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=712847, which I agree with, but the way Geary interacts with the system clipboard appears to be entirely unpredictable. Pressing Ctrl+V within an edit window in Geary often gets me a *prior* clipboard selection, as though this is being stored in memory somehow, and often pastes it without formatting; I have to go through the right-click menu to actually get the real paste.

This is under 11.3 on Arch Linux, Gnome 3.22.
Comment 1 Michael Gratton 2018-01-10 17:15:06 UTC 
Hi Alex, thanks for reporting this issue. It sounds a lot like Bug 730495, where basically WebKit is handling paste if you use the shortcut, but Geary handling paste if you use the context menu. If you're running under X11, then WebKit may be using the X Selection, while Geary is using the X Clipboard.

Does that sound about right?
Comment 2 Alex 2018-01-10 18:27:09 UTC 
Yup, this is a duplicate.
Comment 3 Michael Gratton 2018-01-11 04:45:14 UTC 
Okay, thanks for letting me know.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 730495 ***