Occasionally unable to paste in to code window

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Occasionally I am unable to paste from the clipboard in to an IntelliJ code window (by keyboard or mouse). I can copy text from the window but it simply refuses to paste. I can paste it to another text editor, so I know the copy worked. Sometimes it eventually starts working as expected, whilst other times I can only fix this by rebooting my machine. To be frank, it's driving me nuts. I experience it with both Ubuntu 16.0.4 LTS and Denbian 9 and I'm using IntelliJ 2016.3.5.

Please please please fix this issue as it's infuriating.

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Nick

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Done. https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-169322.

Looking at the logs I can see this:

2017-03-08 09:01:24,791 [58298301] WARN - llij.ide.ClipboardSynchronizer - Java bug #6322854 
java.lang.NullPointerException: Failed to retrieve atom name.
at sun.awt.X11.XlibWrapper.XGetAtomName(Native Method)
at sun.awt.X11.XAtom.getName(XAtom.java:186)
at sun.awt.X11.XDataTransferer.getTargetNameForAtom(XDataTransferer.java:165)
at sun.awt.X11.XDataTransferer.getNativeForFormat(XDataTransferer.java:154)
at sun.awt.datatransfer.DataTransferer.getFlavorsForFormats(DataTransferer.java:677)
at com.intellij.ide.ClipboardSynchronizer$XWinClipboardHandler.a(ClipboardSynchronizer.java:407)
at com.intellij.ide.ClipboardSynchronizer$XWinClipboardHandler.areDataFlavorsAvailable(ClipboardSynchronizer.java:331)
at com.intellij.ide.ClipboardSynchronizer.areDataFlavorsAvailable(ClipboardSynchronizer.java:99)
at com.intellij.ide.CopyPasteManagerEx.areDataFlavorsAvailable(CopyPasteManagerEx.java:77)
at com.intellij.ide.CopyPasteManagerEx.getContents(CopyPasteManagerEx.java:244)
at com.intellij.openapi.application.ex.ClipboardUtil.getTextInClipboard(ClipboardUtil.java:27)
at com.intellij.openapi.application.ClipboardAnalyzeListener.applicationDeactivated(ClipboardAnalyzeListener.java:58)
at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor184.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
at com.intellij.util.messages.impl.MessageBusConnectionImpl.deliverMessage(MessageBusConnectionImpl.java:117)
at com.intellij.util.messages.impl.MessageBusImpl.doPumpMessages(MessageBusImpl.java:381)
at com.intellij.util.messages.impl.MessageBusImpl.pumpMessages(MessageBusImpl.java:368)
at com.intellij.util.messages.impl.MessageBusImpl.sendMessage(MessageBusImpl.java:347)
at com.intellij.util.messages.impl.MessageBusImpl.access$200(MessageBusImpl.java:42)
at com.intellij.util.messages.impl.MessageBusImpl$2.invoke(MessageBusImpl.java:230)
at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy46.applicationDeactivated(Unknown Source)
at com.intellij.ide.ApplicationActivationStateManager.updateState(ApplicationActivationStateManager.java:94)
at com.intellij.ide.IdeEventQueue.i(IdeEventQueue.java:806)
at com.intellij.ide.IdeEventQueue._dispatchEvent(IdeEventQueue.java:568)
at com.intellij.ide.IdeEventQueue.dispatchEvent(IdeEventQueue.java:391)
at java.awt.SentEvent.dispatch(SentEvent.java:70)
at java.awt.DefaultKeyboardFocusManager$DefaultKeyboardFocusManagerSentEvent.dispatch(DefaultKeyboardFocusManager.java:217)
at java.awt.DefaultKeyboardFocusManager.sendMessage(DefaultKeyboardFocusManager.java:244)
at java.awt.DefaultKeyboardFocusManager.dispatchEvent(DefaultKeyboardFocusManager.java:755)
at com.intellij.ide.IdeKeyboardFocusManager.dispatchEvent(IdeKeyboardFocusManager.java:27)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Component.java:4760)
at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:2294)
at java.awt.Window.dispatchEventImpl(Window.java:2746)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:4711)
at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEventImpl(EventQueue.java:758)
at java.awt.EventQueue.access$500(EventQueue.java:97)
at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(EventQueue.java:709)
at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(EventQueue.java:703)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.security.ProtectionDomain$JavaSecurityAccessImpl.doIntersectionPrivilege(ProtectionDomain.java:80)
at java.security.ProtectionDomain$JavaSecurityAccessImpl.doIntersectionPrivilege(ProtectionDomain.java:90)
at java.awt.EventQueue$4.run(EventQueue.java:731)
at java.awt.EventQueue$4.run(EventQueue.java:729)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.security.ProtectionDomain$JavaSecurityAccessImpl.doIntersectionPrivilege(ProtectionDomain.java:80)
at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:728)
at com.intellij.ide.IdeEventQueue.b(IdeEventQueue.java:843)
at com.intellij.ide.IdeEventQueue._dispatchEvent(IdeEventQueue.java:679)
at com.intellij.ide.IdeEventQueue.dispatchEvent(IdeEventQueue.java:391)
at java.awt.SequencedEvent.dispatch(SequencedEvent.java:128)
at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEventImpl(EventQueue.java:756)
at java.awt.EventQueue.access$500(EventQueue.java:97)
at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(EventQueue.java:709)
at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(EventQueue.java:703)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.security.ProtectionDomain$JavaSecurityAccessImpl.doIntersectionPrivilege(ProtectionDomain.java:80)
at java.security.ProtectionDomain$JavaSecurityAccessImpl.doIntersectionPrivilege(ProtectionDomain.java:90)
at java.awt.EventQueue$4.run(EventQueue.java:731)
at java.awt.EventQueue$4.run(EventQueue.java:729)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.security.ProtectionDomain$JavaSecurityAccessImpl.doIntersectionPrivilege(ProtectionDomain.java:80)
at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:728)
at com.intellij.ide.IdeEventQueue.b(IdeEventQueue.java:843)
at com.intellij.ide.IdeEventQueue._dispatchEvent(IdeEventQueue.java:679)
at com.intellij.ide.IdeEventQueue.dispatchEvent(IdeEventQueue.java:391)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(EventDispatchThread.java:201)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(EventDispatchThread.java:116)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:105)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:101)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:93)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:82)
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