Re: [libreoffice-users] copy function not working

Hi.
Is this then a problem of Ctl-C not working in Firefox.
If you open notepad along with writer and Ctl-V in Firefox, Ctl-C  
writer, Ctl-C notepad, does paste in notepad work while not in writer.
It seems hard to get this issue reproducible.
Steve

On 07/06/18 05:25, Robert M McClure wrote:
> I can assure you that the reported problem, ie, Control-C not copying.  
> Is NOT a hardware problem. On my machine it appears to happen quite  
> regularly under the following circumstance. Firefox is displaying a  
> web page. Control-C click on the URL bar. Open a Writer window. Paste  
> (Control-V). This ALWAYS works. Select some text in the Firefox page.  
> Control-C click. Go to the Writer page. Paste. About 90% of the time  
> the result is the previously copied URL. However, if in the Firefox  
> page, you click on Edit, and then Copy, and then paste in the Writer  
> Document, it is correct. I have performed this experiment (and similar  
> ones) enough times to definitely rule out a keyboard problem on my  
> machine. There is something strange in the interaction between Firefox  
> and Writer. I have tried the same experiment with the Opera browser  
> and do not see this problem.
>
> System: AMD64 processor, 16GB memory, Windows 7 64 bit (up to date),  
> LibreOffice Version: 6.0.3.2 (x64), Firefox 60.0.1 (64-bit).
>
> And for the record, I have a PhD in Electrical Engineering and have  
> been designing digital logic, computers, and writing software since 1957.
>
> Bob McClure
>
>
> On 6/6/2018 3:45 AM, 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?


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