@Ljiljan, could you give an example of another app that’s experiencing copy/paste issues on Ubuntu?
I have this problem as well (OpenSUSE Tumbleweed):
Version: 6.3.3.2.0+ Build ID: 30(Build:2) CPU threads: 6; OS: Linux 4.16; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3;
Calc wants to paste as an image if copied using the icon on the toolbar or right click. edit - maybe 50% of the time.
Works okay if use Ctrl-C to copy.
Very frustrating as I am mouse oriented and use spreadsheets all day.
I have created Bug 129319 in Bugzilla. Lets hope to get a resolution.
I am confirming that this is an issue on many platforms, not just Ubuntu. In the last couple of months, I’ve installed Ubuntu, Fedora, PopOS, Elementary - all the latest versions and I have the same copy/paste issue described by OP with every platform. This is definitely a LibreOffice issue. It is very annoying as I use LibreOffice exclusively and copy/paste is a basic function that you’d expect to just work.
This has now infected the hard key combinations. CTRL-X and CTRL-C.
Version: 6.3.3.2.0+
Build ID: 30(Build:2)
CPU threads: 6; OS: Linux 5.3; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3;
Locale: en-GB (en_GB.UTF-8); UI-Language: en-GB
Calc: threaded
all the latest versions and I have the same copy/paste issue described by OP with every platform. This is definitely a LibreOffice issue.
Likely a wrong conclusion. All these latest versions probably have one thing in common: they use a recent version of Mutter as compositor, with its new clipboard “manager”.
I have a similar problem in LO Writer. Both right-mouse cut/paste and CTRL+X/V recently began acting up. It cuts, but then it pastes something old. It works as it should some times, normally if I try again and again.
Never seen it before, and it only happens in LibreOffice, not in say Firefox.
LibreOffice 6.3.3.2 in vanilla Ubuntu 19.10. I have no idea what a compositor or Mutter is.
It does not happen only in LibreOffice but also a few other applications, maybe not Firefox. Some are mentioned in the corresponding bugs somewhere:
- https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=128803
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/issues/919
- https://launchpad.net/bugs/1852183
See also Wikipedia’s Mutter and Compositing window manager articles.
I have this exact problem. Running Libreoffice_calc 5.2 on a Pixelbook. Using Crostini which currently runs Debian stretch. I am trying to migrate from MS Office 365 (excel) and this kind of elementary bug is a blocking factor. I did paste special and once got the expected menu where I could choose how the thing would be copied but most of the time I get a dialog box and when I do the paste it pastes in an “image”.
I am seeing this on Windows 10 64-bit, with LO 6.3.
Once the paste fails, I can switch to Word or Wordpad (ugh), paste there, select it there, switch back to writer, and then the paste seems to work.
Has anybody created a but in libreoffice for this yet?
So to summarize as answer not hidden in the comments, this appears to be a bug in the Mutter compositor’s integrated clipboard manager, which is used in Ubuntu 19.04 and other distributions. See
- https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=128803
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/issues/919
- https://launchpad.net/bugs/1852183
Update 2020-03-16T12:30+01:00:
Citing from the mutter bug:
I can confirm the problem disappears in LibreOffice when I disable
the Gnome Clipboard Indicator extension, and reappears when I re-enable
the extension.
So disabling the Gnome Clipboard Indicator extension might help some.
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FYI, I’ll check Mutter, but the problem only occurs with Libreoffice apps,.
Check the launchpad and mutter bugs and you’ll see it’s not only LibreOffice.
I do not have that extension and still I have the problem on LO… what I’ve been doing is to press Ctrl+C twice every time. The thing is that LO often pastes the previous selection. This problem also happens on other apps, but is much more frequent on LO.
I have the same problem in both 19.10 and 20.04 releases. for me too the only workaround is to do the copy action twice. If i need to “cut”… well, i don’t. Copy + Copy then paste, then delete the part i needed to cut.
I have also this problems under Windows 10 and now also at LibO version 7.0.4. I have also to use a external clipboard-manager.
I had the same issue. Mutter has problems with Xorg. But it works like a charm with Wayland. So if you have copy/paste issue with Libreoffice, you can log in to your ubuntu in Wayland.
Indeed, that’s apparently why I don’t encounter it (on Fedora F31) because I use a Wayland session.