Can someone please also open a new upstream bug?
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/issues
** Tags added: focal
** Summary changed:
- copy/paste still sometimes fails in LibreOffice on Ubuntu 20.04
+ copy/paste still sometimes fails in LibreOffice on mutter 3.36.2
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Oh dear. Davide, you are right. I habitually use keyboard control keys
for cut, copy and paste, and had to try quite hard to get the problem.
Using the context menu (within one writer document) it fails for almost
every other try.
Using the main menu it rarely fails, but it did occasionally.
I tried libreoffice (calc and writer) on two real machines.
If I use the copy command from the context menu (mouse right click),
it fails once every two (second, fourth, sixth,...).
With the other methods the error rate is approximately 1/20 (the one indicated
by Adam)
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I tried to reproduce bug #1852183 with just one writer document, and
failed to do so after the mutter update. Maybe I didn't try hard enough,
but it didn't re-occur after many trials in one writer document.
However, I have now tested copying between two writer documents, and
reproduced the same
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
** Changed in: mutter (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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** Description changed:
In Ubuntu 19.10 and 20.04 there was a bug that caused copy and paste
operations to fail pretty often: the text that was pasted was not the
text that was just copied. See the long discussion at bug #1852183.
The bug was recently marked closed, since the package
