LO copy&paste bug - copied content is pasted as image

[Jared22]

I’m using LO 24.2.7.2 and KDE Plasma 6.2.5.

I have been battling with this issue for a while. I have noticed it in Impress and Calc but it may also be an issue elsewhere.

When I copy and paste something (some cells in Calc, or a text box or a shape in Impress) using Ctrl+C - Ctrl+V, it is pasted as an image.

I’m in Impress right now, copied an arrow: right clicking only gives one option (paste), there is no paste special option. Shift+insert produces the same result as right click + paste and Ctrl+V.

Restarting my computer is the only thing that fixes the problem, but it quickly resurfaces during the most inconvenient times. I can’t keep restarting my computer.

I’ve done some searching on the web, there are a few references to similar bugs from 2014 and 2021, saying paste is pasting copied content as “bitmap” images (I don’t know what that is), and in those instances there is often a reference to the “clipboard manager.” I’m using Plasma’s native clipboard manager and I’ve messed around with its configuration a bunch, trying different things, but that has no effect on this bug.
Edit: I say I’m using “Plasma’s native clipboard manager” - by that I mean i never installed a “clipboard manager,” I’m using what Plasma gives me by default. Is that a “clipboard manager” ? Klipper - KDE UserBase Wiki

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

[EarnestAl]

@Jared22

I’m using Plasma’s native clipboard manager and I’ve messed around with its configuration a bunch, trying different things,

If the clipboard manager doesn’t support odf format then no amount of configuration will get it to work properly except turning it off.

[mikekaganski]

@EarnestAl

support odf format then

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Newly copied text placed in 2nd position of clipboard

… and less related, just showing how they made quite disrupting change in Plasma 6 - breaking copy-paste between other apps, too:
https://www.reddit.com/r/openSUSE/comments/1bk8a1c/cant_paste_image_into_browser_since_plasma_6/

[Jared22]

Hi, thanks for that feedback.

If the clipboard manager doesn’t support odf format

But it works fine for a time, and I remember I time when it always worked fine. So something else is broken, I don’t think the plasma clipboard not supporting odf is the issue.

Edit: I say I’m using “Plasma’s native clipboard manager” - by that I mean i never installed a “clipboard manager,” I’m using what Plasma gives me by default. Is that a “clipboard manager” ?

[Jared22]

Hi, thanks for these links.

So it is not a kde plasma problem.

Its a LO problem? Or clipboard managers across many different distros are all causing the same problem?

Edit: I say I’m using “Plasma’s native clipboard manager” - by that I mean i never installed a “clipboard manager,” I’m using what Plasma gives me by default. Is that a “clipboard manager” ?

[Jared22]

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Calc keeps copying and pasting cells as images

Thanks for the suggestions. Here are the results (not necessarily in the same order): Using Ctrl+c, Ctrl-v vs. the menu makes no difference. I normally use keyboard shortcuts, but didn’t do that in the example GIF so everyone could see what was happening. Cut/Paste exhibits the same behavior as Copy/Paste Copying and pasting disjoint cells exhibits the same behavior [image] Copying text from LO Writer and then pasting it into LO Calc does work [image] I installed Diodon to see …

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Calc keeps copying and pasting cells as images

Same problem windows10. If you do not use a clipboard manager you are not aware of the problem/ difference from Libreoffice calc 24.x. With Ditto or copyq when you copy multiple cells, there is a strange behaviour. For example If 1 you copy multiple cells 2 you open ditto 3 you paste the first entry It is pasted an image of the cells.

indicates that this is also an issue in Windows, if that helps.

[LOstandUser]

Same problem here on KDE Plasma.

Sometimes it works, but I have do do the same thing (copy-paste) several times, until it works. It just costs an impressive number of time and nerves to not be able to copy-paste something reliably.

Update: it never happend so far, if I copy a number of cells containing different types of entries, like text+formula or number+formula.