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Opened Jan 28, 2020 by Helge Hafting@helge.hafting

Pasting an external selection fails after copy/pasting a cell

I have a workload where I mark a row of numbers in an xterm, then right-click a cell in gnumeric and select paste. The numbers are then pastes into gnumeric, each number in a cell of its own. Then I select another row of numbers, and so on. Boring, but it works.

Then gnumeric failed for me. I noticed an error in the spreadsheet. I corrected it by selecting a cell, used ctrl+c to copy it, and ctrl+v to paste it where it was needed.

Then I selected another number row in xterm, tried to paste in gnumeric, and NOTHING HAPPENED. Pasting was dead, it was not possible to paste the external seleection any more.

I found a workaround: stopping gnumeric and re-starting it, reinstated the paste-from-selection functionality. But restarting the spreadsheet software is not a productive way to work. :-(

Steps to reproduce:

  1. start gnumeric. An empty spreadsheet is fine. Select numbers in some terminal, paste them into gnumeric.
  2. copy a cell using ctrl+c ctrl+v
  3. Select numbers in some terminal, note that the cannot be pasted into gnumeric.

I noticed this on arch linux and artix linux. I use wayland, but that should not matter. The external pasting works fine, until an internal copy-paste is done.

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Reference: GNOME/gnumeric#460