Description of problem: When pasting larger amounts of formatted text (about 18 pages with tables and images) from a web page such as Wikipedia to LibreOffice (Writer), the operation fails with the message: 'Requested clipboard format is not available'. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 5.2.6.2-2.fc25 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Go to a web page such as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Patrick%27s_Day using a browser like Firefox. 2. Select and copy all text. 3. Paste selected text into LibreOffice Writer. Actual results: After a pause, the error message 'Requested clipboard format is not available' is displayed. Expected results: The formatted text should be pasted with formatting into the document. Additional info: Pasting the same formatted text in smaller chunks works perfectly. However, this is tedious and should not be necessary (unless the amount of text to be copied is ridiculously long). Microsoft Office, for example, is able to handle the above paste operation in one go. Pasting large amounts of text in unformatted form works without any problems but this is not practical, as tables and images are lost. I suspect that this has to do with the 'paste buffer' for processing formatted text in LibreOffice being too small. Would appreciate if this issue could be looked into. Thanks!
This is definitely reproducible, which is very good
GDK_BACKEND=x11 ./swriter and it works, under default wayland there's a "gdkselection-wayland.c:266 error reading selection buffer: Operation was cancelled" warning
Thanks for looking into this. Using GDK_BACKEND=x11 solves the problem for me. Now I am able to paste really large amounts of formatted text. Some additional info I've noticed: Using the GDK_BACKEND=x11 parameter as you suggested solves another issue of being unable to paste images from Firefox to LibreOffice. Maybe it's caused by the same bug so I won't report it separately. Cheers and have a good week.
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