Re: [libreoffice-users] copy function not working

On 2018/06/03 17:09, Brian Barker wrote:
> At 20:50 29/05/2018 +0000, Virgil Arrington wrote:
> > I am starting to experience more copy/paste issues similar to those 
> > described by Thomas. I am using LO 6.0.3.2 with Linux Mint 18.
> >
> > Today, I was working in Impress. I've been copying and pasting text 
> > from one slide to another within a single Impress presentation file. 
> > Every now and then, the copy function <Ctrl-C> does not copy the new 
> > text, so that when I press <Ctrl-V>, instead of getting the text I 
> > just copied, I get a previous copy. It also happened when I tried 
> > copying text from another program (LyX) into my LO Impress.
>
> I have to say that the simplest explanation of this for both of you - 
> and consequently the one recommended by Occam - is still that your 
> copy operation - using Ctrl+C - failed to happen. Keyboards do fail or 
> become unreliable, so this would hardly be surprising. Pardon my 
> asking this, but when did you last remove dust, cat hair, biscuit 
> crumbs, paper clips, and so on from your keyboard? Gravity is 
> effective at adding these items. Do you use the "C" key often? Are you 
> perhaps a member of the Caius College Cambridge Cricket Club?
>
> Here's a suggestion. When you use Ctrl+C you see no feedback of the 
> process. In other words, the behaviour is exactly the same whether the 
> operation has succeeded or failed, so you cannot tell. This is 
> different from using Edit | Copy, where the Edit menu disappears when 
> the click is successful, but not otherwise. Similarly, using 
> right-click | Copy, the context menu disappears only when your click 
> is successful. Just test by using either of these techniques instead. 
> If you can reproduce the problem with the *Copy* operation performed 
> in either of these ways, there may be some underlying software 
> problem; if not, your Ctrl+C is simply not working.
>
> > I must say this is an entirely new behavior for me and my copy of LO. 
> > It not only happened when copying and pasting from another program to 
> > LO, but also from one slide to another within LO itself. I'll keep an 
> > eye on it and try to see any consistency in the behavior. So far, it 
> > has been intermittent.
>
> Again, this is all consistent with a hardware problem.
>
> I trust this helps.
>
> Brian Barker
Good evening
I do not want to be awkward, but this behavior seems to affect ONLY 
Libreoffice.
(it did not bother me for 1-2 weeks now)

Trying to copy one word selected in a text editor works just fine in ALL 
softwares I tried EXCEPT Writer - which insists on inserting some 
earlier selection (when it is in the mood to).
How can this be a hardware problem?

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