Description of problem: When an application is closed, the X selection buffers are cleared, but the wayland selection is persistent. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): $ rpm -qa \*gnome-shell\* \*wayland\* \*mutter\* wayland-devel-1.17.0-2.fc31.x86_64 libwayland-server-1.17.0-2.fc31.x86_64 mutter-3.34.0-5.fc31.x86_64 libwayland-egl-1.17.0-2.fc31.x86_64 gnome-shell-3.34.0-3.fc31.x86_64 libwayland-client-1.17.0-2.fc31.x86_64 gnome-session-wayland-session-3.34.0-3.fc31.x86_64 gnome-shell-extension-background-logo-3.34.0-1.fc31.noarch gnome-shell-extension-common-3.34.0-2.fc31.noarch gnome-shell-extension-user-theme-3.34.0-2.fc31.noarch gnome-shell-extension-pomodoro-0.15.2-0.1.gitcb1ad32.fc31.x86_64 qt5-qtwayland-5.12.4-7.fc31.x86_64 wayland-protocols-devel-1.18-1.fc31.noarch chrome-gnome-shell-10.1-5.fc31.x86_64 xorg-x11-server-Xwayland-1.20.5-7.fc31.x86_64 libwayland-cursor-1.17.0-2.fc31.x86_64 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run gnome with Wayland 2. Install xsel and wl-clip to investigate the X and Wayland clipboard contents respectively 3. Open Gedit and write some text 4. Open a terminal (tile them both for ease) 5. In gedit copy the text: highlight and right click > copy 5. In the terminal, run the following commands: 5a. xsel -o (PRIMARY X selection buffer) 5b. xsel -o -b (CLIPBOARD X selection buffer) 5c. wl-paste (wayland selection buffer) 6. Then, close gedit, and re-run these commands. Actual results: When gedit is running, the copied text is available to the X and wayland selection buffers. Expected results: Content should be available to both selection buffers even after gedit is closed? Additional info: I'm not sure what the right component is. Please reassign as required.
I'm pretty sure this has been the case for a while. In fact, when using xsel to set a buffer, it forks and sticks around in the background until something else replaces the buffer.
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