I can only reproduce this bug in LibreOffice Calc (spreadsheet). I
cannot reproduce it in Writer or Geary.

But it is a consistent problem for me in Calc.

Here are the symptoms/process:
1. First new copy invariably fails to copy text, instead copies/stores a bitmap 
image.
2. If I "cut" instead of "copy" then I have to use the "undo" function to 
restore the text so I can attempt again. 
3. Undoing my paste/cut operations consistently causes LibreOffice to crash. 
4. Second attempt at cut/copy invariably succeeds.

I will try to grab a crash report as it seems specifically related to
this bug.

I noticed this immediately upon upgrading from 19.04 to 19.10, all with
latest stock kernel/software/updates. IE, using the standard versions in
the repositories.

The behavior from this bug has the potential to cause data loss: When
LibreOffice crashes before "undo" can restore the cut text, whatever
chunk of data that was intended to be cut gets completely discarded and
does not get recovered with the rest of the document, probably because
it was stored in a buffer somewhere separate from the actual document
data itself.

So all in all this bug converts text into image and then deletes the
data altogether.

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  [X11] copy/paste (clipboard) is broken in Ubuntu 19.10

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