Bug 145624

Summary: Cut and paste does not work, except from inside libreoffice.
Product: LibreOffice Reporter: blthong
Component: WriterAssignee: Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED INSUFFICIENTDATA    
Severity: normal    
Priority: medium    
Version: 6.0.2.1 release   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
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Crash report or crash signature: Regression By:
Attachments: Attempts to copy from PDF and web page

Description blthong 2021-11-11 02:57:52 UTC
Description:
Very often pasting from other sources other than libreoffice apps do not work.  The last item copied from a libreoffice app will be pasted instead.  This bug has been reported and discussed ad nauseam but no fix seems to be provided.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Copy/cut from outside libreoffice
2.  Paste into libreoffice writer / calc 
3.

Actual Results:
Nothing

Expected Results:
paste what I have copied


Reproducible: Sometimes


User Profile Reset: No



Additional Info:
Version: 6.0.6.2 (x64)
Build ID: 0c292870b25a325b5ed35f6b45599d2ea4458e77
CPU threads: 8; OS: Windows 10.0; UI render: default; 
Locale: en-MY (en_MY); Calc: CL
Comment 1 phv 2021-11-11 11:39:26 UTC
Please provide a concrete example, i. e. a website, from which the copy and paste in LibreOffice is not done. Also, do you have the numbers of the bug reports you refer to?

I myself do not experience this issue in the latest public version (7.2.2.2) of LibreOffice.

Thank you.
Comment 2 blthong 2021-11-11 14:40:23 UTC
Created attachment 176191 [details]
Attempts to copy from PDF and web page

I've attached a video of myself trying to copy from a pdf as well as a web page, unsuccessfully.  In case you want to try it yourself, here is the url:  https://asian-recipe.com/types-of-kumquats-13188

This problem of being unable to paste only surfaced a few months ago, I have been using libreoffice for the past 5 years at least.  I do a lot of copy and paste in my work, so its getting to the stage where it is nearly unusable for my work.  I really hope you will be able to provide some help here.

And as to what bug reports bring up this issue, I have no idea, this is the first time I have been desperate enough to sign up to bugzilla and report an issue.  But I have googled this issue and there have been discussions about it:
1. https://ask.libreoffice.org/t/copy-paste-doesnt-work-always/53748
2. https://ask.libreoffice.org/t/copy-paste-not-working/39429
3. https://ask.libreoffice.org/t/libre-office-writer-6-2-0-3-cannot-copy-and-paste-in-and-out-of-the-document/40109
Comment 3 QA Administrators 2021-11-12 04:11:56 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 4 Michael Warner 2021-11-12 15:15:26 UTC
No repro:

Version: 7.2.2.2 / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 02b2acce88a210515b4a5bb2e46cbfb63fe97d56
CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 5.4; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded

Version 6.0.6.2 is very old, many issues have been fixed since then. Please install the latest version from https://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-fresh/ and try again.
Comment 5 QA Administrators 2022-05-12 06:14:02 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 6 QA Administrators 2022-06-12 03:29:35 UTC
Dear blthong,

Please read this message in its entirety before proceeding.

Your bug report is being closed as INSUFFICIENTDATA due to inactivity and
a lack of information which is needed in order to accurately
reproduce and confirm the problem. We encourage you to retest
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