Bug 148647 - LO pastes previous clipboard content instead of latest copied from other app, depending on apps opened (Windows; see comment 11)
Summary: LO pastes previous clipboard content instead of latest copied from other app,...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LibreOffice (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
Inherited From OOo
Hardware: All Windows (All)
: high normal
Assignee: Mike Kaganski
URL: https://ask.libreoffice.org/t/is-ther...
Whiteboard: target:25.2.0 target:24.8.0.2
Keywords:
: 136762 151984 152927 153415 154346 154520 156862 161856 162029 162039 162144 162811 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks: Clipboard
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Reported: 2022-04-18 10:32 UTC by zeka10000.z1
Modified: 2024-11-02 06:25 UTC (History)
19 users (show)

See Also:
Crash report or crash signature:


Attachments
Reproducing a bug with put wrong data from clipboard (1.67 MB, video/mp4)
2022-04-18 10:41 UTC, zeka10000.z1
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Description zeka10000.z1 2022-04-18 10:32:50 UTC
Description:
When I try to copy number from browser in libre Pastes copied cell


Steps to Reproduce:
1.Copy cell with text 
2.Copy other text from othr place
3.Paste in  other cell

Actual Results:
Cell have text "amber tresses" and when I want to paste "866382" it puts "amber tresses"

Expected Results:
Expected to put "866382" from notepad not "amber tresses" from neighboring cell


Reproducible: Sometimes


User Profile Reset: No



Additional Info:
[Information automatically included from LibreOffice]
Locale: ru
Module: SpreadsheetDocument
[Information guessed from browser]
OS: Windows (All)
OS is 64bit: yes

Version: 7.3.2.2 (x64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 49f2b1bff42cfccbd8f788c8dc32c1c309559be0
CPU threads: 4; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 19043; UI render: Skia/Vulkan; VCL: win
Calc: CL
Comment 1 zeka10000.z1 2022-04-18 10:41:31 UTC
Created attachment 179637 [details]
Reproducing a bug with put wrong data from clipboard
Comment 2 Timur 2022-04-18 15:27:19 UTC
(In reply to zeka10000.z1 from comment #0)
> Reproducible: Sometimes

Please try to find reproducible steps.
Comment 3 Timur 2022-04-26 07:38:15 UTC
Confirmed in https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62196#c141 with:
-----------------
c) Until now I don't know a way how to make the problem 100%reproducible
d) Problem is not related to activated WIN10 feature "clipboard history"
Comment 4 Timur 2022-05-23 13:34:24 UTC
Video attachment 179637 [details] makes a logical omission. When data is cut from Notepad++, clipboard is not shown, so we really can't say if bug is LO or N++.
I'm using LO and N++ together and I'm seeing this a lot lately in Windows 7.
So please try to reproduce without N++, confirming the bug in Clipboard.
Comment 5 Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 2023-01-06 13:55:58 UTC
*** Bug 151984 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 2023-01-06 14:20:55 UTC
Mike, copying you in as this could be a follow-up from:
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/112044
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/111825
According to this comment: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=136762#c29

Would be great if someone who can reproduce the issue can test if it indeed started from versions 7.1.3 or 7.2.0. (And just test with older versions anyway to see if this issue is a regression.)

Rainer reproduced in 7.2 according to comment https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62196#c142
Comment 7 m_a_riosv 2023-01-08 14:57:27 UTC
*** Bug 152927 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 8 Viktor 2023-01-09 07:45:42 UTC
(In reply to Stéphane Guillou (stragu) from comment #6)
> Mike, copying you in as this could be a follow-up from:
> - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/112044
> - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/111825
> According to this comment:
> https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=136762#c29
> 
> Would be great if someone who can reproduce the issue can test if it indeed
> started from versions 7.1.3 or 7.2.0. (And just test with older versions
> anyway to see if this issue is a regression.)
> 
> Rainer reproduced in 7.2 according to comment
> https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62196#c142

Hello Stéphane,

I have just tested it with portable Version of:
Version: 7.2.7.2 (x86) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 8d71d29d553c0f7dcbfa38fbfda25ee34cce99a2
CPU threads: 8; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 19045; UI render: Skia/Vulkan; VCL: win
Locale: de-DE (de_DE); UI: de-DE
Calc: CL

Still the same problem within LO with the Clipboard.

The failure is in ALL Apps from LO, not only calc
Tested with Draw, Impress, Writer and Calc
Comment 9 steve 2023-01-15 13:39:56 UTC
Adjusting component to LibreOffice since all apps are affected as per https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=148647#c8

Should OS be switched to all since I have been seeing this on macOS as well in recent main builds.

What about priority? https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62196 had highest and this has medium but from what I can tell it is the same problem.

Sadly no trivial repro steps on macOS. In my test just now pasting behaved as expected but I am aware this frequently is a problem and it is fairly infuriating, since LibreOffice will refuse to paste the correct content.
Comment 10 Mike Kaganski 2023-01-15 13:56:25 UTC
(In reply to steve from comment #9)
> Should OS be switched to all since I have been seeing this on macOS as well
> in recent main builds.

No. *Until proven otherwise*, all such problems (i.e., related directly to OS-specific features) must be considered OS-specific. It would really be great if it turned out to be OS-independent, because it would bean it's possible to fix it for all of them at once.

Note that this is only "same problem" when you consider the manifestation / priority. But indeed, technically, this is a different problem, that needs a separate fix.
Comment 11 Rainer Bielefeld Retired 2023-02-20 18:54:53 UTC
Doing some more tests I now am pretty sure that this problem is (at least also)  caused by interaction with other running Applications. 

Steps how to reproduce with Installation of Version: 7.5.0.1 (X86_64)  
Build ID: 77cd3d7ad4445740a0c6cf977992dafd8ebad8df
CPU threads: 12; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 19044; 
UI render: default; VCL: win – Locale: de-DE (de_DE); UI: de-DE
Calc: threaded |  Elementary (SVG)  Theme  |  Normal UserProfile  

0. Install "MP3Studio YouTube Downloader" from https://mp3.studio/
1. Launch LibO with empty new Writer document
2. Open existing writer Document
3. Open a Web Page in (SeaMonkey) rowser
4. Copy single word from existing writer Document (<cntrl+c>) → Paste to
   new Writer document (paste as plain text)
5. Copy single word from Web Page to new writer doc. (<cntrl+c> ... <ctrl+v>)
6. Redo (4) ... (5) several times, always copying a new word
   » always will work fine
7. Launch "MP3Studio YouTube Downloader"
8. Redo (4) ... (5)
   » expected: (5) will work fine
     actual: Clipboard contents from (4) pasted.             😥

Additional info:
a) "MP3Studio YouTube Downloader" does some background actions copying
   youtube page URLs from Browser to "MP3Studio YouTube Downloader" 
b) I passed test (1) ...(8) several times with different web pages and
   different LibO source writer documents. Always broke after Step (7)
Comment 12 Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 2023-02-20 19:29:38 UTC
*** Bug 153415 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 13 Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 2023-02-22 21:06:11 UTC
(In reply to Rainer Bielefeld Retired from comment #11)
> Doing some more tests I now am pretty sure that this problem is (at least
> also)  caused by interaction with other running Applications. 

Thanks Rainer, this description is consistent with duplicate bug 153415 comment 5, with the app Textbausteine Plus.
Comment 14 m_a_riosv 2023-03-23 21:37:11 UTC
*** Bug 154346 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 15 Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 2023-04-14 22:38:41 UTC
*** Bug 154520 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 16 Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 2023-06-15 15:10:43 UTC
Likely the same issue as in earlier bug 101257.
Comment 17 Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 2023-09-11 15:19:35 UTC
*** Bug 156862 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 18 Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 2023-09-11 16:14:13 UTC
Upping Priority from Medium to High, seeing 6 duplicates with potentially more in See Also.
Comment 19 Dieter 2023-09-12 04:23:13 UTC
*** Bug 156862 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 20 Malcolm Storey 2024-03-13 21:09:01 UTC
I've just hit this too. 
Writer Rel 7.6.5.2
64bit Windows 11.
Comment 21 Andrew Beck 2024-03-28 22:03:04 UTC
Also seeing this in Libre Writer

Version: 7.6.6.3 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: d97b2716a9a4a2ce1391dee1765565ea469b0ae7
CPU threads: 8; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 19045; UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win
Locale: en-GB (en_GB); UI: en-GB
Calc: CL threaded

If you enable clipboard history in Windows 10 (PC settings->System->Clipboard->Clipboard History->On)

You can press Windows Key + V and it will show the what you have copied in to the clipboard from another application.

But Pressing CTRL + V in Libre Writer it will paste the last thing you copied in Libre Writer not what is in the clipboard, it seems to be ignoring what is actually in the OS clipboard, preferring it's own clipboard.

It seems as a work around with clipboard history enabled, if you Press Windows Key + V and then click on the clipboard item in the window that Windows pops up, it pastes the right content in to Libre Writer
Comment 22 Martijn Schrama 2024-04-12 13:10:07 UTC
I have had this issue since OpenOffice,
It is easy to reproduce.

Open a document (Writer/Calc)

1) Copy - paste something from outside LO (works fine)
2) Copy - paste something from inside LO (works fine)
3) Copy - paste something from outside LO (does not work, it will paste the data from step 2. This happens consistently.

The workaround is clearing the windows clipboard. This seems to reset the internal LO clipboard as well.
 
see also: https://ask.libreoffice.org/t/why-cant-lo-paste-text-from-other-sources/87109

Current setup: Win 11 Home Build 22631
LibreOffice: 7.5.9.2 cdeefe45c17511d326101eed8008ac4092f278a9
Comment 23 V Stuart Foote 2024-04-12 16:16:04 UTC
*** Bug 136762 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 24 Mike Kaganski 2024-04-22 04:06:10 UTC
In https://ask.libreoffice.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-get-libreoffice-to-paste-text-in-windows/104986, TeamViewer was reported as affecting/causing this problem. Could you please check if this is related to this case, or not? Thanks.
Comment 25 BikeHelmet 2024-04-22 06:55:22 UTC
(In reply to Mike Kaganski from comment #24)
> In
> https://ask.libreoffice.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-get-libreoffice-to-paste-
> text-in-windows/104986, TeamViewer was reported as affecting/causing this
> problem. Could you please check if this is related to this case, or not?
> Thanks.

Well, I encountered that just today. I was remotely working on a computer and needed to copy some numbers across. They won't paste directly into LibreOffice. I need to dump them into Metapad, Notepad++, a web browser text box, Wordpad, Word, an email program like Thunderbird, etc, then re-copy from there to paste into LibreOffice. Basically, any program other than LibreOffice that can work with the data type.

At this point I have just gotten used to incorporating more copy+paste steps.

I still occasionally need to tell LibreOffice to Reload the open document, to get the ability to Copy+Paste anything at all.
Comment 26 m_a_riosv 2024-07-02 00:23:51 UTC
*** Bug 161856 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 27 Dan K 2024-07-02 17:06:53 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 28 Dan K 2024-07-02 17:10:14 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 29 Pete 2024-07-03 08:14:14 UTC
Since my report 161856 was considered a duplicate, I will paste my description from that report, because the problem of 100% repeatability is mentioned many times in this thread. In my description, I provided a recipe for 100% repeatability of the error:

Description:
When copying individual cells using the clipboard (Ctrl+C > Ctrl+V), everything works as it should. However, after selecting a larger number of cells and pasting them, Calc does not accept new text data copied using Ctrl+C, for example from Windows Notepad. It still remembers the last multi-cell data copied from Calc. In such a situation, only restarting Calc helps.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Copy several Calc cells with Ctrl+C
2. Paste them elsewhere in the same Calc sheet with Ctrl+V
3. Copy any text from Windows Notepad via Ctrl+C
4. Paste the data copied from Notepad into the same Calc sheet using Ctrl+V. Calc will instead paste the data copied in step 1

Actual Results:
Calc only accepts new data copied from Calc

Expected Results:
Calc should also accept new data copied from other applications (e.g. Windows Notepad)
Comment 30 V Stuart Foote 2024-07-14 10:41:22 UTC
*** Bug 162029 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 31 Mike Kaganski 2024-07-14 17:29:49 UTC
https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/170459
Comment 32 Commit Notification 2024-07-14 19:17:21 UTC
Mike Kaganski committed a patch related to this issue.
It has been pushed to "master":

https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/2e0664015255ffc0f76a11a9cb254564b34de496

tdf#148647: make sure to update own content on Win clipboard change

It will be available in 25.2.0.

The patch should be included in the daily builds available at
https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More
information about daily builds can be found at:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds

Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Comment 33 Mike Kaganski 2024-07-14 19:20:43 UTC
The just-merged change is a blind fix. I ask people who see the problem consistently, to test the daily builds that hopefully will be available tomorrow. I appreciate the feedback, if this seems improved / resolved for you, or not, using the build with the change.

This is a Windows-only change; as mentioned elsewhere, these OS-integration bugs like clipboard problems are OS-specific, just as their fixes, even if similar problems manifest on different operating systems.
Comment 34 m_a_riosv 2024-07-14 22:03:42 UTC
*** Bug 162039 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 35 Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 2024-07-15 00:08:03 UTC
(In reply to Rainer Bielefeld Retired from comment #11)
> Doing some more tests I now am pretty sure that this problem is (at least
> also)  caused by interaction with other running Applications. 
I could reproduce with your steps in 7.1.0.3 and 24.2.4.2 on Windows 11 (note that it is also reproduced when the MP3 Studio window is closed but the app is still running in the background - it needs to be exited from the task bar's "hidden icons").

Thanks for looking into it, Mike, I can test in same conditions when the build is available.
Comment 36 andrew.james.heard 2024-07-15 00:25:20 UTC
When LibreOffice Calc & Writer exhibit this "bug", I've still successfully pasted the clipboard into Notepad, Sublime Text, Vivaldi address bar, Visual Studio text editor. FWIW I have the windows-key+V Clipboard history app disabled.
Comment 37 Mike Kaganski 2024-07-15 04:14:09 UTC
(In reply to Stéphane Guillou (stragu) from comment #35)
> (In reply to Rainer Bielefeld Retired from comment #11)
> > Doing some more tests I now am pretty sure that this problem is (at least
> > also)  caused by interaction with other running Applications. 
> I could reproduce with your steps in 7.1.0.3 and 24.2.4.2 on Windows 11

Pacepalm. I see now, that this had been here since Feb 2023; and even put into the bug's title; yet, I missed this all this time. I indeed repro with the steps, too.

(In reply to Stéphane Guillou (stragu) from comment #6)
> Would be great if someone who can reproduce the issue can test if it indeed
> started from versions 7.1.3 or 7.2.0.

Heh, for the record: I also reproduce with OOo 2.2.0 (2006).

And I don't reproduce with master after the fix. So let me close it.
Unless you see steps from comment 11 failing for you, please file *anything* looking similar after the said fix as new bugs. Indeed, if steps from comment 11 fail for you in current master (or, when the backport is finished, in 24.8), please feel free to reopen this one. If these steps fail in a future version (after 25.2), please file it as a new bug, and put this one to its See Also.

Thanks.
Comment 38 Mike Kaganski 2024-07-15 04:48:47 UTC
For devs, if similar problems appear on other platforms:
Check if there is an assumption that the ref-counted clipboard data object created from own data is destroyed when something new is copied to clipboard. This might not be true; external programs may have bugs (I have debugged why "MP3Studio YouTube Downloader" causes this, and indeed, it actively uses clipboard, but fails to release opened resources after it read them, keeping the data object in LibreOffice alive - so definitely a bug in the external program, which we should be ready for); and there may be legitimate cases for this, too.

XClipboardOwner::lostOwnership [1] mechanism may be relevant when debugging this.

[1] https://api.libreoffice.org/docs/idl/ref/interfacecom_1_1sun_1_1star_1_1datatransfer_1_1clipboard_1_1XClipboardOwner.html#a02a04014b37982364ae35a1c2c0618da
Comment 39 Commit Notification 2024-07-16 19:04:32 UTC
Mike Kaganski committed a patch related to this issue.
It has been pushed to "libreoffice-24-8":

https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/b9d32aa128ca1c8096a43c8d564a38330f1fc85c

tdf#148647: make sure to update own content on Win clipboard change

It will be available in 24.8.0.2.

The patch should be included in the daily builds available at
https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More
information about daily builds can be found at:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds

Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Comment 40 V Stuart Foote 2024-07-22 17:58:44 UTC
*** Bug 162144 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 41 Mike Kaganski 2024-09-05 14:43:17 UTC
*** Bug 162811 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***