GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 774975
Copying text from Evolution emails in Wayland works erratically
Last modified: 2021-05-19 12:28:01 UTC
I really don't know how to explain or describe this because the behavior I'm seeing is just so weird and unpredictable... my usecase is copying text from received mails (in Evolution) to Gedit, and sometimes it works, sometimes not. With ctrl+C and ctrl+V, sometimes it will paste the contents into gedit (or polari) only after I switch to a different GNOME Shell workspace (with alt-tab or ctrl+alt+up/down) and come back to gedit afterwards, where the text will suddenly have appeared. I tried screencasting this but the behavior seems to change each time and depending on the complexity of the emails...
Thanks for a bug report. Tomas, do I remember correctly that there had been anything with respect of copy under Wayland in webkitgtk4?
There is this bug with workspaces - https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=769835 and the clipboard could be broken in some cases in composer on Wayland - to resolve that this needs to be fixed - https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=775631
For the record, this bug is still present (Evolution 3.26.5, Gnome 3.26.2). In Wayland, sometimes any attempts to copy any sort of content from Evolution has no effect. Things like email text, email addresses, and images don't get sent to the clipboard when copied, and even drag-and-drop operations on text/addresses/images don't work. This doesn't get fixed until Evolution is restarted. In fact, I tried dragging an email address to a Gedit window just now, and got this crash: https://retrace.fedoraproject.org/faf/reports/1970982/ However, there are other applications in Gnome for which text sometimes doesn't get copied correctly in Wayland (like ABRT/Problem Reporting, as I just discovered!), so this isn't an Evolution-specific issue.
I tried to reproduce this, but no luck, with both up-to-date Fedora 27 and Rawhide. I guess the clipboard breaks after certain operation(s), maybe I didn't press Ctrl+C enough times. I tried with both HTML and plain text messages, just selecting part of the message below the message list, pressing Ctrl+C, then I switched to gedit and pressed Ctrl+V. Tomas mentions in bug #775631 that the Wayland used to send two "owner-changed" signals, while X11 sent only one. I wonder what it might do when these are received in an opposite order. But whether it's even possible I do not know. (In reply to krinkodot22 from comment #3) > In fact, I tried dragging an email address to a Gedit window just now, and > got this crash: https://retrace.fedoraproject.org/faf/reports/1970982/ I did try this too, but it worked fine here. The gedit didn't crash, it showed that it cannot work with a mailto: URI. I dragged a To address from the message preview. I believe this should be treated separately, while the FAF report shows that the crash happened in the WebKitGTK+ code.
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