Weird behaviour of select to copy and paste function in Fedora 44

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Hello.
I’m facing a weird behaviour of the select to copy and paste function in gnome desktop. It started appearing (randomly) in F43 but now is always reproducible in F44.
I used the supported procedure (gnome software app or dnf) to upgrade from previous Fedora releases to the current one.
So far now select to copy and middle click paste works:

inside the same libreoffice document
from gnome-terminal to libreoffice and firefox
from gnome-text-editor to libreoffice
from google-chrome to libreoffice
inside firefox

Does not:

inside and to a libreoffice dialog (e.g. search & replace fields)
to and inside gnome-text-editor
to and inside gnome-terminal
between and to google-chrome windows or tabs

Do you experience this behaviour too? How to further troubleshoot this issue and what logs to take?

Thanks all!

Mario

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Try this in the terminal and tell us if your experience is better:

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface gtk-enable-primary-paste true

In Gnome 50 the primary paste got switched of. Apparently some users had problems with the middle click paste.

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You saved me a lot of headaches!
Using it every day from above 20 years… I love it and I instinctively try to use it even in WIndows :exploding_head:
Thank you