@ajyoung – Given that we’re not able to reproduce the bug, it’s possible that it’s some weird interaction that’s only being exercised on your system(s).
I suggest you go ahead and file a bug (see link in my Answer) and explain everything that we’ve discussed on the Question up to this point. The QA team can hopefully work with you to find the source of this issue.
@qubit1 - Filed the bug as you suggested. I forgot to check what the bug tracking number is so I can’t post it. Is there a way to view the bug submitted or check for feedback?
Hi @ajyoung, Looks like your bug is here:
fdo#62196 - EDITING: copy-paste from non-LibO-text-source pastes previous clipboard contents - NEEDINFO
Please provide additional information per @rrbd’s request.
Thanks!
@ajyoung – Regarding finding bugs you’ve filed on Bugzilla, just log-in and look for a link “My Bugs” that’s down at the bottom of the page.
Cheers,
fdo#62196 · Status: NEEDINFO
fdo#62196 · Status: NEW
Hi @ajyoung,
That sounds like a very weird bug! It sounds like you’re already running the latest release, so please file a bug and provide a list of steps that can reproduce your problem (the description you have above looks like a great start! :-).
The QA team will be happy to help you track down this issue! Please post a link to any bugs you file in a comment below using the format “fdo#123456”.
Thanks!
(noting bug here for resolution purposes)
fdo#62196 - EDITING: copy-paste from non-LibO-text-source pastes previous clipboard contents
I have exactly the same set up and problem, but am also using “Phrase Express” (www.phraseexpress.com). If I turn off the clipboard cache in Phrase Express the problem seems to go away. I’ll try it for a while longer to confirm…
Update - I’m not convinced it was Phrase Express - I’m still getting wierd behaviour. Cutting and pasting simple text is fine, but I’m copying / pasting slides between two presentations. Especially when copying multiple slides strange things happen - I sometimes just get repeated instances of the previously copied single slide. This behaviour even seemed to survive a complete re-boot - (does LO keep a local cache of clipboard contents?) Unfortunately I can’t find a reliable way to reproduce any of this and I need to give this presentation tomorrow so I can’t spend any more time bug chasing! Will get back to it when I have more time…
This has been plaguing me literally for years, but until the latest Libre and Windows 8 it was only a considerable annoyance. (I assumed it was a Windows problem, very, very foolishly, 'cause I believed in open source. I was even stupid enough to imagine that maybe Microsoft was sabotaging Open Office, since they have done similar things in the past.)
Now cut and paste is a catastrophe, and I will be leaving the Libre and Open Office world. I installed Word yesterday, and will probably use it with rtf for all files. Sadly I had to abandon .rtf some years ago because OO used to choke on it in large files. So now I have non-standard file types (as far as word and the world go.) No .rtf fix ever came because that issue was declared a non-problem. I should have abandoned Open Office then.
I’ve researched and tried a dozen clipboard reset “solutions” yesterday and today (rather than working - total up the cost for that) and none worked for more than one paste - then the problem recurs. Rebooting, CCleaner, endless other tries. I have managed to prove to myself that it’s Libre, not Windows. Changing computers hasn’t worked. Changing to Libre hasn’t worked. Changing OSes hasn’t worked. So goodbye cruel Libre.
(For God’s sake, at least make it possible for users to quickly, genuinely, clear the internal clipboard, or permanently disable it in favor of the OS clipboard, if that’s possible.)
My experience with OO and now Libre is that programmers are very quick to decide there can’t be a problem or that it’s “weird” and a one-off. I sympathize, because I understand there aren’t infinite resources; so dismissing problems that aren’t trivially reproducible is quite tempting: but some few functions just HAVE to work for even the most basic functionality, and cut and paste is one of those. There are a few functions that have to be genuinely robust, period. Without a recognition of this most users end up back in a virtual Soviet Union, endlessly lining up for bread and sausages (that is, bug fixes) in front of shops with always empty shelves.
I believed in open software but now I’ve simply been bitten too many times. I’ll be dumping GIMP for Corel or similar in the next day or so as well, and I’ll do everything I can to avoid all open source solutions in future, at all times.
I need to get my work done. This is ridiculous, I rue every penny I ever “saved.”
I applaud all the individuals who have contributed to open source, but the system behind open source simply isn’t working, except for large corporations who can afford to pay for whatever changes, fixes and revisions they themselves need, when they need them. The rest of us can’t get things that “just work” from open source, and won’t in the future, either.
Linux is perhaps an exception - because it has paid extremely large corporations (and the US government in the past, with its security initiative) to very heavily invest in it by throwing large numbers of paid employees at it.
Goodbye cruel open source.
I just install new 4.0.0.4 and I CAN NOT paste simple text into Writer or Calc.
Could you solve it please. I juste started to think LO is good one, but… Simple CLIPPBOARD doe’s not work?
Hi @MrHIDEn,
If you’re experiencing additional issues with pasting that are not resolved by the answers provided here or explained by the bugs linked from this page, please file a new bug and include step-by-step instructions so that we may reproduce your problem.
Thanks!
Hi
I have some issue and it got resolved (at least to my knowledge), but quitting evernote clipper 
Hope this helps.
This copy/paste error happens to me as well.
It’s been around since the start of version 4.
Clipboard fusion is not the problem, since this error occurs with it not installed. But with it installed, there is a work around, right click on clipboard fusion icon, goto clipboard history and select what you just copied. This will then let you paste it in the Calc or Write apps.
The only other option, is the one I’m using now, fall back to a none version 4.X.X.X LibreOffice/OpenOffice. I’m using version 3.6.5.2 LibreOffice and everything works fine, even with clipboard fusion installed.
cheers
Had the same problem. No Libreoffice program would let me copy text into the clipboard.
What you can do is start the windows task manager and end background processes one at a time, re-open the file with libreoffice and try to copy and paste a piece of text from it to notepad for example, and see after which ended process it starts working again.
For me it was the process kleopatra.exe, which is an encryption software that was causing the problem.
Cheers.
