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 -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
