Re: [libreoffice-users] copy function not working

On 06/06/18 22:45, Thomas Blasejewicz wrote:
> 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?
Hi.I also have experienced the same issue and only with LO, but not 
(touch wood) since the last update from the OpenSuse repository.
Because I use Klipper in KDE everything I select gets put on the 
clipboard. I also use Ctl-Ins/Sft-Ins as that is easier one handed. 
(mouse left hand -  number pad, copy-cut-paste right hand).
I noticed that occasionally nothing pasted after a copy, or very rarely 
something I had copied previously, even from another application but it 
was no issue because I just pasted the copy on Klipper.
steve


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