Bug 131631 - Copy/Paste in Calc Results in image paste, not contents paste
Summary: Copy/Paste in Calc Results in image paste, not contents paste
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 128803
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Calc (show other bugs)
Version:
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6.4.1.2 release
Hardware: All Linux (All)
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Reported: 2020-03-27 16:51 UTC by larrybradley
Modified: 2020-03-27 17:44 UTC (History)
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Description larrybradley 2020-03-27 16:51:24 UTC
Description:
Roughly 50% of the time when I click in a Calc cell and Ctrl-C then Ctrl-V it pastes a picture of the contents of the cell instead of the actual contents. For example, if the cell I am copying contains the number 2500, I select the cell, invoke ctrl-c, go to an empty cell and invoke ctrl-v, instead of pasting the actual number, it pastes a picture of "2500". I delete the picture, re-do the action and it then pastes the cell contents. 

Before you ask, I am not hovering on the cell to be copied or highlighting it as you would do to move the contents, I simply left-click on it, then do ctrl-c and for some reason the clipboard records the action as a picture to be pasted.

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Click on cell.
2.Ctrl-C
3.Go to empty cell.
4.Ctrl-V

Actual Results:
Often results in placing the copied contents in clipboard as a picture, then, when pasting it pastes as a picture. After deleting the pasted picture, repeating the copy/paste produces the correct result, which is pasting the contents as a number, not as a picture of the number.

Expected Results:
Selecting the cell and copying the contents should copy the contents to the clipboard as something other than a picture.


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No



Additional Info:
[Information automatically included from LibreOffice]
Locale: en-US
Module: SpreadsheetDocument
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OS: Linux (All)
OS is 64bit: yes
Comment 1 larrybradley 2020-03-27 16:52:46 UTC
Is it possible that this is a problem with the Linux clipboard, and not with LO itself?
Comment 2 Eike Rathke 2020-03-27 17:44:24 UTC
Yes, it's a Mutter composer clipboard manager bug with X11/Xorg, does not occur with Wayland. See duplicate of bug and https://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/213510/copypaste-clipboard-issues-libreoffice-calc/?answer=224835#post-id-224835

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 128803 ***