I was using an MXlinux supplied version of LO when this occurred. It started a few days after an MXlinux update in early February and I do not know what it updated. I asked both MXlinux Forum and AskLibreOffice. Cutting a long story short the Impress part of LO stopped copying textboxes and drawn objects as the original and converted them to pictures (the first seemed to be png files. This made my use of Impress impossible. I removed the MX version and replaced it with a free standing version of LO still the same problem Right clicking the mouse only gave Paste as an option. I was advised to use the main menu rather than the shortcut menu to use the paste special but it was not available. I tried changing clipboard managers but the problem persisted and at this point removed the latest version and went back to 7.6. Still the problem existed. I have a laptop with the same operating system as the desktop and it too has the same problem. This system is never changed, only updated from MXlinux. The final part of this saw me remove from synaptic any reference to clipboard or clipman, mentioned in forums AskLibreOffice and MXinux forum, so that the only paste references found in synaptic were node-copy-paste libgpaste-2-common libgpaste-2 gpaste-2 The result was that an attempt to copy / paste had the same problem of an image being pasted. However, if the same article was copied a second time the textbox was pasted. This can be repeated over and over again when copying the same thing but a new object copied always fails the first time. A contributor to my post had a asimilar problem of this alternate success and failure of pasting in Impress and found that the xfce component of his system, when replaced, got rid of the problem. I can appreciate this is possibly a combination effect of OS/LO but it only started a week ago, is only apparent in Libre Office regardless of which version of LO is used All the hardware has been purchased in the last three years
I am the person who reported the similar problem using Debian linux Trixie with XFCE. Copy/paste in Impress requires two repeated attempts. The first paste is always an image, the second paste is correct. This happens when copying anything (text box, equations, entire slides…). After a clean install of Debian Trixie with the Cinnamon desktop environment, the problem goes away. With both desktop environments, the libreoffice package is the same: Version: 24.8.4.2 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: 480(Build:2) CPU threads: 20; OS: Linux 6.12; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3 Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); UI: en-US Debian package version: 4:24.8.4-2 Calc: threaded I assume this points to some issue involving the window manager, desktop environment, or clipboard manager in XFCE versus Cinnamon. I should also note that I have used Libreoffice + XFCE in the previous Debian release (bookworm) without this problem.
I'm seeing the same problem using Impress on Kubuntu 25.04. Version: 25.2.2.2 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: 520(Build:2) CPU threads: 12; OS: Linux 6.14; UI render: default; VCL: kf6 (cairo+wayland) Locale: de-DE (de_DE.UTF-8); UI: de-DE Ubuntu package version: 4:25.2.2-0ubuntu1 Calc: threaded
Hello, So, recently I was given a protocol by Eduard of the MXLinux Forum It works and enables me as an amateur to fix this easily. LOffice Impress Copy and Paste Malfunction [Solved] Eduard » MX Linux Forum Apr 2025 1. From main menu, Type in search box - Session and Startup and open it Choose Application Autostart and uncheck Clipman (clipboard manager) 2. Edit the empty file /etc/environment using plain text editor such as nano 2a - type in a terminal - sudo nano /etc/environment OR 2b - Navigate to the FILE and right click it to open in Featherpad / nano (plain text editors) Then, copy and paste the following definition: XFSETTINGSD_NO_CLIPBOARD=1 Hope this helps.