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Re: [trinity-users] issue since 3.5.13 upgrade

From: Greg Madden <gomadtroll@...>
Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2012 18:06:59 -0900

On Sunday 19 February 2012 3:21:15 pm Kristopher John Gamrat wrote:
> On Sunday 19 February 2012 07:04:58 pm Greg Madden wrote:
> > I have read, here, some users have various issues with 3.5.13. Here is
> > mine.
> >
> > I use Librreoffice 3.3.4 for my business, all my docs & templates are
> > full page tables, and multiple pages.  One significant issue I have is
> > the cut/copy> paste function in tables does not work in a timely fashion.
> > I select data in multiple cells that I want to move or copy elswhere in
> > the table/tables and it takes two tries to accomplish this. The first try
> > pastes the data into  a single cell, I have to repeat the
> > select/cut/copy>paste process.. time consuming on a feature that can
> > really save time.
> >
> > Now how is this a "TDE issue, not sure   but two things stand out to me.
> > 1. This is very pronounced since the upgrade from 3.5.12 > 3.5.13.
> > 2. This sequence works fine in a Virtualbox instance of TDE 3.5.12 same
> > LO ver.
> >
> > I could just re-install 3.5.12 on my workstation, but before I do I
> > wanted to check other  users issues, not 100% confidant the VB is an
> > accurate test environment, i.e. everything seems to work fine with the
> > virtual hardware VB uses, and it isn't a 100% identical  software stack .
>
> Two things I can think of:
> -One is a possible glitch in LO (did you upgrade LO or any of the related
> dependencies recently?). -The other is a possible glitch in Klipper (TDE's
> clipboard manager, it's the Clipboard icon in the system tray with the K on
> it). The only solution here I can think of is to remove
> ~/.trinity/share/apps/klipper and ~/.trinity/share/config/klipperrc,
> uninstall/purge klipper-trinity (or whatever the package name is on your
> distro), then reinstall Klipper, and finally relaunch it.

As odd as #2 sounds to me, uninstalling klipper & reinstalling, it worked :-)

Now that I think about it, the clipboard does seem a reasonable suspect.

Thank You.

-- 
Peace,

Greg