I have had a similar problem, but it's different enough that I doubt that they are the same.
I use a Bible program called Xiphos Bible Guide on Linux Mint 18, with LO 6.0.3. Like you, I typically use Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V for copy and paste. I often copy and paste Bible verses from the Bible program to LO. I once found that, with the first copy and paste using keyboard shortcuts, everything went fine, but with the second copy/paste attempt, I would get Bible verse "A" rather than Bible verse "B" (using your nomenclature). What I concluded was that the Bible program wasn't using Ctrl-C with successive copy operations. After the first copy with Ctrl-C, and for later text copying, I would have to right-click on the selected text and mouse-click on "Edit" > "Copy" to get the second copied text to the clipboard. This behavior was consistent no matter what program I was copying to, so I concluded that there was nothing wrong with LO. Virgil On 05/14/2018 06:44 AM, Thomas Blasejewicz wrote: > On 2018/05/12 2:11, Brian Barker wrote: >> At 20:04 10/05/2018 +0900, Thomas Blasejewicz wrote: >>> >>> Problem: Select a text portion in one application -> move to Writer >>> -> Ctrl+V (paste). >> > Sorry, most likely my explanation was not good enough. > So, I will try it again. My home computer is now on 6.0.4 - which did > NOT improve things. > (if anything, the apparent lack of scaling capability for the > interface font makes work only harder) > > Use any piece of text: let's use A = help / B = rescue > * Suppose now I have a text editor open and select "A" on the editor > screen and press Ctrl+C (or use the mouse to achieve the same thing) > * switch to Writer > * press Ctrl+V (or use the mouse to achieve the same thing) > * I get "A" > So far so good. > * Next I select a different word, like B and perform the same procedure. > * Having done this a trillion times on "countless" computers using > equally "countless" different applications -> > * I DO expect to get "B" in Writer. > * However, Writer insists on copying "A". It does not matter how many > times I repeat the procedure. > * This morning it even continued to insist in copying "A" instead of > "B" AFTER I shut Writer down and reopened it. > * When I use the "Ctrl+C" + "Ctrl+V" routine to copy either "A" or "B" > into software OTHER than Libreoffice, it works as expected. > > I am definitely NOT a computer expert, but I believe I can perform a > "copy and paste" action. > In particular when I do this deliberately and with great care. > One might argue, that "A" is still on the (Windows) clipboard. > But if that were true, copying it to other applications should also > give me an "A", but I actually get the requested "B". > > For that reason I cannot help but assume, that there is something > strange going on in Writer. > While working in Writer I use Calc in parallel to create a list of > term and their translations. > Copying either A or B from other applications into Cals DOES NOT give > me this grief. (at least not yet) > This is a recent event and I don't thing I have had this problem with > the computer in my little clinic. > Even though this may not be any sort of "fatal error", it is > nonetheless very annoying during work. > > Is this explanation a little better? > Thomas > -- 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/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
