Bug 164984 – [GTK] No copy and paste between workspaces

• Component: WebKitGTK
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Berend De Schouwer]

Copy and paste between applications where both the source or the destination application has a WebkitGTK+ widget can fail.

Environment: Gnome Shell on Wayland
Version: 2.14.1-2.fc25 (Fedora 25)

Copy and Paste will fail when the applications are on separate workspaces.  When the applications are on the same workspace copy and paste works fine.

Copying *from* a WebkitGTK+ application *to* another WebkitGTK+ application on a different workspace does not work.

1. Start Evolution on Workspace 1
2. Start Epiphany on Workspace 2
3. Go to workspace 1, select text, context-menu -> copy
4. Go to workspace 2, context-menu -> paste
   ... nothing happens
5. Switch backwards and forwards between workspaces

Paste never happens.

Various applications were tested.  The two WebkitGTK+ applications that were tested were Epiphany and Evolution.  Other applications tested include gedit, gnome-calculator, gnome-terminal, firefox, chrome, konsole, gnome-music, gnome-builder, nautilus, gnome-font-viewer, gnome-shell.

Epiphany fails both on the WebkitGTK+ widget, and on a normal GTK+ widget.  It fails on both web content, and the URL bar.

Downstream bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1396009

This probably depends on # 164983.  I was requested to submit separate bug reports.

[Michael Catanzaro]

Now this one I cannot reproduce. The paste works "just fine" for me after I have switched workspaces. I can reproduce bug #164983 exactly as you reported it, but that's all I'm seeing here too.

[Berend De Schouwer]

I can't duplicate this anymore either.