Public bug reported:
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).
My questions are:
Does this happen on your system?
Why?
How can I stop this?
I just 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.
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
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Gnome on Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS text copying triggers apparently useless
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