1836802 - clipboard conflicts with xsel

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Core :: Widget: Gtk, defect, P3)

Description

[rafd1788]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/113.0

Steps to reproduce:

1. Copy any text from firefox.
2. Go to the terminal and type 'echo $(xsel -ob)'
3. The xsel clipboard buffer is empty.
4. Set new content on the clipboard 'echo test | xsel -ib'
5. Go to firefox or any other GUI application and paste the content.
6. The previous firefox content gets pasted.

Actual results:

xsel can't get the clipboard content from firefox, what's worse is that xsel can't clear the clipboard or set a new one.

So when any other application I tested (joplin or visual studio code) copies to the clipboard, xsel can recognize the text at PRIMARY or CLIPBOARD buffers. But firefox seems to have a "more persistent" clipboard that xsel can't recognize or clear.

To re-establish xsel behavior, I need to copy any text from other GUI application. xsel version 1.2.0.
test made on Fedora 38 KDE

Expected results:

xsel should have seen the content from firefox and any modification on the clipboard made in xsel should have been pasted on firefox.

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Core::Widget: Gtk' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please correct in case you think the bot is wrong.