[Scribus] Copy and paste

Pueblo Native pueblonative
Mon Jul 2 04:06:53 CEST 2007


John Jason Jordan wrote:
> Scribus 1.3.3.8, Ubuntu Feisty amd64
>
> Is there a secret way to copy and paste text from other applications? I
> have text in a Firefox page, selected and copied it, but Scribus
> continues to paste something I placed in the clipboard several hours
> ago from another program. I pasted the new text into Gedit as an
> interim, but Scribus is still seeing the old data.
>
> In fact, I just tried copying and pasting a few words from another text
> frame in the same Scribus document, and it still pastes the old
> clipboard data. 
>
> I recall having this problem a couple years ago in OpenOffice.org,
> although it seems to be fixed these days. Wonder if it's the same issue
> and, if so, how they fixed it.
>   

really depends on your window manager.  I occasionally have the problem
in KDE, though right clicking on clipper shows that it's in there. 
Sometimes you just have to highlight it for some odd reason.



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