On Thu, 7 Jun 2018 08:18:33 +1200 Steve Edmonds <steve.edmo...@ptglobal.com> wrote:
> 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 Note that Robert is using Windows whilst you are using Linux. The copy and paste mechanisms are different between Windows and X and whichever desktop you are running. It's quite a complex area that's not well understood. > 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? > >> > > > > > > -- 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
