https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=315844
--- Comment #2 from Luca Cerone ---
You are right Fabio, it is not always reproducible.
after closing and opening Okular, now it is working as intended (my bad).
But definitively it is an issue with pdf.
Maybe it is because I had more than one Okular
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=315844
Bug ID: 315844
Summary: Highlighting pdfs doesn't work when using keyboard
shortcuts
Classification: Unclassified
Product: okular
Version: 0.14.3
Platform: Ubuntu Packages