Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
** Changed in: gnome-shell (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1836960
Title:
Gnome on Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS text copying triggers apparently useless
file writes
Status in gnome-shell package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Status in nautilus package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Status in ubuntu-meta package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
Description:
I recently noticed a strange behavior on my (pretty vanilla) Ubuntu
18.04.2 LTS. Every time I copy some text from GNOME Terminal, using
keyboard or mouse, it triggers a little hard drive activity.
Intrigued, I decided to see what was going on (persistent clipboard
data?). After some investigation, I found out that the activity is due
to a file being written to whenever I do a copy in GNOME Terminal (or
in other apps):
~/.config/nautilus/desktop-metadata
The small file seems to record the nautilus view settings and the
trash icon state, has no apparent relation to functions of the
clipboard, and does not mutate following each write (the content stays
unchanged).
I also tested to see if the same happens on a different computer
running 18.04.2 desktop live usb, and the answer is yes. So this
shouldn't be something particular to my system.
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Steps to reproduce:
* Boot your computer using live CD or usb created with:
ubuntu-18.04.2-desktop-amd64.iso
You can obtain it from:
http://releases.ubuntu.com/18.04/
last modified: 2019-02-10 00:27
sha256: 22580b9f3b186cc66818e60f44c46f795d708a1ad86b9225c458413b638459c4)
* Start Gnome Terminal, copy some text from there, and note the
current time when you perform the copying
* Check the timestamp of ~/.config/nautilus/desktop-metadata and
observe it's been modified at the same time you did the copying
* Repeat as many times as you like
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Expected behavior:
Copying text in Gnome should not trigger writes to some arbitrary file
(and should not trigger any disk IO at all).
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