Public bug reported:
Pasting text copied form outside of a webapp is impossible. Similary,
copying text from a webapp and trying to paste it into another
application (e.g. GEdit) doesn't work, as webbrowser-app (used to run
webapps) doesn't seem to use the system clipboard, but has a local
clipboard for each webbrowser-app window.
Copying text from one webapp (e.g. Gmail) into another one (e.g. Google
Plus) also doesn't work.
Copying and pasting only works within one webapp/webbrowser-app window,
i.e. each webapp (webbrowser-app window) seems to have its own
clipboard.
Test case:
1. Open a webapp (e.g. Gmail)
2. Select text by double-clicking and copy it by pressing [ctrl]+[c]
3. Try pasting it in GEdit, e.g. with [ctrl]+[c], or with [shift]+[insert], or
with middle-click (i.e. from the X clipboard)
Expected result:
Text copied from the webapp is pasted into GEdit
Actual result:
Text previously copied from outside of any web app (e.g. from Firefox) is
pasted instead.
Analogous test cases apply for copying from GEdit (or another non-
webapp) into a webapp and between webapps. All fail in similar ways,
however between webapps, it's the content of a webapp's local clipboard
that's pasted.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: webbrowser-app 0.23+14.04.20140428-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-34.60-generic 3.13.11.4
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-34-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.3
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Mon Aug 25 18:14:35 2014
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-07-12 (43 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140417)
SourcePackage: webbrowser-app
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
** Affects: webbrowser-app (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug trusty
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Webapps don't use system clipboard
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