GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 775313
Clipboard contents are not available when exited application in wayland
Last modified: 2021-07-05 13:43:50 UTC
When some text is copied to the clipboard and the user exits the program before pasting it somewhere and tries to paste it after exiting the contents are not available for pasting. A similar bug was filed for another component. I guess it could be used as a reference https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=622049 . Steps to reproduce: 1. Open any mail 2. Copy some text 3. Close the application 4. Try to paste the text somewhere Expected results: The contents are available for pasting Actual results: Contents are not available for pasting
Thanks for a bug report. I tried to reproduce this, but no luck. It works the same as with gedit. Basically: a) select some portion of the message preview with a mouse b) press Ctrl+C to copy the content c) close the evolution d) in terminal, press Ctrl+Shift+V to paste the text And it's there. Not using step b) makes only paste-on-middle-mouse-button-click work, which is expected, as far as I can tell. This is under X.org. Using Wayland is a different story, in which case neither gedit works, thus this should be moved to gtk+, if you also meant that you use the Wayland. Did you? P.S.: my gtk+ version is gtk3-3.22.2-2.fc25.x86_64
(In reply to Milan Crha from comment #1) > Using Wayland is a different story, in which case neither gedit works, thus > this should be moved to gtk+, if you also meant that you use the Wayland. > > Did you? > > P.S.: my gtk+ version is gtk3-3.22.2-2.fc25.x86_64 Yes. I just recently came to know that this was specific to Wayland. I initially thought that this was a general issue, so I didn't specify that I was using Wayland, sorry. You could do what should be done.
Thanks for the update. I'm moving this to gtk+ then.
I do confirm this bug which is sooo annoying ! F25 x64 Wayland, I can reproduce this bug on my 2 PCs, 100% of the time.
This is due to the lack of a clipboard manager/duplicator. Such a feature must be implemented in mutter, as external clients can't eaves drop on clipboard without explicit user interaction.
duplicate https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=784549 Why is status "needinfo"?
(In reply to Strangiato from comment #6) > duplicate > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=784549 > Possibly > Why is status "needinfo"? Because the developer forgot to update it?
*** Bug 784549 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
This problem is still happening on Arch Linux, GTK+ 3.22.26
As Jonas said in comment 5, this needs to be implemented in the compositor.
Same thing in Gnome 3.28, Arch Linux.
Same bug in Gnome 3.30. Wayland support is still in alpha-state because this and other bugs.
Strangiato: Your interpretation of "alpha" seems to be off-topic here.
ok, my mistake. It's in beta-state.
This problem is still happening with Gnome 3.34.2 on Arch Linux.
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