Copy/paste from Windows unreliable

[Slion]

Steps to reproduce

Copy text from Visual Studio or Notepad and try to paste it in your app. Sometimes it works and sometimes it does not. You end up pasting nothing or an older version of the clipboard content.

Though it seems I found a workaround by doing Win+V to display the clipboard history and clicking the most recent entry.

✔️ Expected Behavior

Current clipboard content should be pasted

❌ Actual Behavior

Outdated clipboard content is pasted

Other Software

Fulguris Web Browser

Please specify the version of Windows Subsystem for Android

2307.40000.3.0

[philnach]

@Slion, thank you for your feedback. Can you please file feedback via Windows Feedback Hub (Windows key + F) under category Apps > Windows Subsystem for Android and include a recording of your issue. That will collect the additional information needed to understand why copy/pasting isn't behaving as expected.

[MysticTemplar]

I've been seeing similar weird copy and paste behavior - it's been duplicating the paste input into WSA applications. I filed feedback here: https://aka.ms/AAnm4g0

[Slion]

I've had those duplicated paste issues myself lately. It did not used to do that when I filled that report.

[MysticTemplar]

I was doing some additional investigation into a different bug that was reported against my application on WSA and it looks like what is happening is that WSA and Windows are each separately pasting in text - the first copy carries with it all of the formatting applied to the original text source (bolding, italics, etc), while the second is just the plain text instead.

[Slion]

Would be nice to see progress on that issue guys.

[donaldr]

I had an issue where I couldn't copy and paste from Windows into an app. Restarting the subsystem fixed the issue. Not sure if this was a simple one-time thing or part of the same issue.