Bug 402186

Summary:	Copy & Paste doesn't work to Desktop File settings on Wayland
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	Rainer Finke <rainer>
Component:	generic-wayland	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	bugseforuns, kde, nate
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	5.18.4
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	Arch Linux
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
Sentry Crash Report:

Description Rainer Finke 2018-12-16 11:01:00 UTC

If I open the desktop file settings of an application to modify e.g. the run command, I cannot use copy & paste on Wayland. 
What works is to copy & paste text from the desktop file settings window to another program, but copy & paste from another program to the desktop file settings doesn't. Example: Try to paste the following text "GTK_USE_PORTAL=1" to Firefox as a run command, it will not work and you have to type it.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Copy some text
2. Open the .desktop file settings of any program
3. Paste Text

OBSERVED RESULT
Nothing is pasted or only an old text

EXPECTED RESULT
Copy & paste should work

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
KDE Plasma Version: 5.14.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.53
Qt Version: 5.12

Comment 1 David Edmundson 2018-12-17 12:43:18 UTC

I assume you're trying to copy from an X app?
Does it paste correctly into another wayland place, like kate?

Comment 2 Rainer Finke 2018-12-17 21:15:03 UTC

I run all KDE apps on Wayland, so I've tried to copy from Konsole/Kate. If I copy from e.g. Firefox on XWayland it is the same issue. 
Yes, all other applications (Wayland or XWayland) do copy and paste correctly.

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Comment 4 David Edmundson 2019-01-01 15:03:08 UTC

reopening

Comment 5 Patrick Silva 2019-02-24 17:48:29 UTC

Here I copied a text from Kate (Wayland) to Opera browser (Xwayland) as expected.
So I copied a text from Opera browser to Kate and it crashed.
Apparently it crashed, because it disappeared from my screen but coredumpctl shows no Kate crash.

Operating System: Arch Linux 
KDE Plasma Version: 5.15.1
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.55.0
Qt Version: 5.12.1

Comment 6 Patrick Silva 2019-02-24 18:39:41 UTC

bug 404210 seems related/duplicate.

Comment 7 Rainer Finke 2019-10-12 07:38:47 UTC

Still doesn't work with Plasma 5.17 Beta

Comment 8 Rainer Finke 2020-04-21 18:19:04 UTC

Still doesn't work

Operating System: Arch Linux 
KDE Plasma Version: 5.18.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.69.0
Qt Version: 5.15.0
Kernel Version: 5.6.5-arch3-1

Comment 9 Nate Graham 2021-03-04 20:49:09 UTC

This was fixed in Plasma 5.21.