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Strange "Somebody else is owning the clipboard" message

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Description

### Describe the bug

1. Mark some text and copy it with right click
2. Go to a another application and copy some text (e.g. IDE)
3. Now a strange "Somebody else owns the clipboard now" message appear at status line and breaks the layout:

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I noticed this message sometimes appear at other places as well and then mark some text in the terminal leads to the prompt jumping around / duplicated

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### Affected version

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### Steps to reproduce the behavior

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### Expected behavior

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