Fedora copy paste not working

The convenient select copy, mouse middle click paste way does not work on some Fedora desktop environment. Even the Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V/Ctrl-X copy past and menu copy-paste does not work, forcing users to hand type in things that usually just a few mouse clicks away.

This is identified as a buggy package called “clipit”

To identify the problem, please do

$ ps ux | grep clipit

If it shows up like

username       1704  0.1  0.1 290772  5980 ?        Sl   13:04   0:51 clipit

You suffer this problem. To make it instantly working, please kill it:

$ kill <PID>

Then, to permanently remove it, you may simply uninstall it:

$ dnf erase clipit

and allow all packages that depends on it to be removed too.