Re: [libreoffice-users] copy function not working

On 06/03/2018 04:09 AM, 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.

Thank you for the suggestions. As to the dirty keyboard, that doesn't 
seem to be the problem. If it were a bad "C" key, I would have problems 
just typing "C" which I don't. If it were a dirty Ctrl key, then I'd 
have a whole host of other problems with Ctrl key combinations, which I 
don't. But, to be safe, I'll clean it out real well, as it has been a while.

I had also tried your other suggestion. This was a few days ago when I 
first reported the problem. What happened then, if I recall correctly, 
is that I was experiencing the copy/paste problems using the keyboard. I 
then tried selecting text and, using my touchpad, I clicked on the Edit 
menu. At that point, the "Cut" and "Copy" options were greyed out. It's 
as if the program didn't recognize that I had even selected the text. I 
believe at the time, I just closed out of LO and restarted it and all 
was well, and since I sent that email, I haven't had any additional 
copy/paste issues.

So, I'll just keep an eye on things to see if the problem comes up 
again. If/when it does, I'll take some very good notes about what I'm 
doing and see if I can figure out some consistent reproducible 
behaviors. As it stands, this just may have just been a one-off 
occurrence that may never repeat itself. I was just excited at the time 
to be able to confirm what Thomas was experiencing.

Virgil

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