Bug 1365764

Summary:	Access to clipboard from gnome shell toolkit broken when using wayland
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Thilo Maurer <maurer.thilo>
Component:	gnome-shell-extensions	Assignee:	Florian Müllner <fmuellner>
Status:	CLOSED EOL	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	24	CC:	debarshir, fmuellner, michel, mlainz, pikachu.2014
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Description Thilo Maurer 2016-08-10 07:45:48 UTC

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/52.0.2743.82 Safari/537.36
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When running Wayland, text written by ST to the clipboard does not end up in the clipboard buffer. (Fedora 23&24 on Wayland, no issue for Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS)

Multiple gnome shell extensions are therefore unable to use the clipboard.
Here are two:
https://github.com/thilomaurer/pwcalc/issues/8
https://github.com/Tudmotu/gnome-shell-extension-clipboard-indicator/issues/41

For example

St.Clipboard.get_default().set_text(St.ClipboardType.CLIPBOARD,"text for the clipboard");

does seem to have no effect.
Debugging into the code leads to the function st_clipboard_set_text in https://github.com/GNOME/gnome-shell/blob/master/src/st/st-clipboard.c 

This function calls a bunch of X server functions which should finally deliver the clipboard text to the clipboard buffer but they seem to have no effect.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. run gnome on wayland
2. start firefox, go to https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/825/password-calculator/ , allow site plugin
3. use toggle-switch to install password calculator plugin to gnome shell
4. open plugin (key-icon in icon bar), enter alias and passwort, press enter, observe notification to copy to clipboard
5. try to paste clipboard contents somewhere, but: no effect

Comment 1 Thilo Maurer 2016-08-16 11:19:37 UTC

Sorry, I messed up. It is also broken in Ubuntu 16.04.1

Comment 2 Thilo Maurer 2016-09-09 10:33:22 UTC

Patch for Gnome Shell Toolkit is available, see https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=769619

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