Bug 265138 – app-office/openoffice-3.0.1: clipboard contents not available post-exit

• Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Audiodef 2009-04-06 18:52:59 UTC]

When using OpenOffice 3, using ctrl-c to copy text appears not to work when pasting copied text AFTER closing OpenOffice. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open OpenOffice 3 (I have 3.0.1)
2. Type some text
3. Copy text with ctrl-c
4. Close OpenOffice
5. Attempt to paste text somewhere else (gedit, for example)

Actual Results:  
Nothing happens.

Expected Results:  
Copied text should be pasted into new document outside of OpenOffice.

I have not tried this with other OpenOffice versions, nor have I tried pasting into anything other than gedit. But this seems like a bug to me. Copy is copy and whatever is copied should be in the system clipboard until something else is copied.

[Comment 1 Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED) 2009-04-07 19:45:11 UTC]

Please post your "emerge --info" and the output of 
  emerge -qpv openoffice

[Comment 2 Audiodef 2009-04-07 19:53:16 UTC]

emerge --info:

Portage 2.2_rc28 (default/linux/x86/2008.0, gcc-4.3.3, glibc-2.9_p20081201-r2, 2.6.29-gentoo i686)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-2.6.29-gentoo-i686-Intel-R-_Celeron-R-_CPU_2.40GHz-with-glibc2.0
Timestamp of tree: Thu, 02 Apr 2009 07:45:01 +0000
ccache version 2.4 [enabled]
app-shells/bash:     4.0_p10-r1
dev-java/java-config: 2.1.7
dev-lang/python:     2.4.4-r15, 2.5.4-r2
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6
dev-util/ccache:     2.4-r8
dev-util/cmake:      2.6.3
sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0
sys-apps/openrc:     0.4.3-r1
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.7
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.63
sys-devel/automake:  1.5, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2
sys-devel/binutils:  2.19.1-r1
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1
sys-devel/libtool:   2.2.6a
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.28-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /etc/conf.d/hostname /etc/conf.d/hwclock /etc/conf.d/net /etc/cups/ /etc/hosts /etc/issue /etc/samba/smb.conf /etc/security/limits.conf /etc/sysctl.conf /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config /var/lib/hsqldb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="ccache distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org/ http://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/ http://gentoo.mirrors.tds.net/gentoo http://gentoo.netnitco.net http://gentoo.binarycompass.org http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo "
LANG="C"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage/layman/pro-audio"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="16bit 16bittmp 7zip X aac aalib acl acpi alsa apache2 apm aspell audacious audio audiofile audioscrobbler automount avahi berkdb bzip2 cairo calendar cdaudio cdda cddax cddb clamd cli cpudetection cracklib crypt ctype cups cupsddk custom-optimization dbus directfb dmx dri dssi dvd dvdread encode esd exif fam fbcon fbcondecor ffmpeg fftw filter flac fluidsynth font-server fontconfig fontforge foomaticdb fortran freesound ftp gd gdbm gif gimp gmedia gnome gnome-keyring gphoto2 gpm grammar grub gstreamer gtk gui gzip hal iconv id3 id3tag iptc ipv6 isdnlog jack jackmidi java jpeg ladspa lame lash libnotify libsamplerate lm_sensors lv2 mad mbox mdnsresponder-compat midi mjpeg mmx mmxext mng mp2 mp3 mp3rtp mp4 mtp mudflap musepack mysql mysqli nautilus ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin odbc ogg openal openexr opengl openmp optimize osc pam pcre pdf perl php pidgin plugins png ppds pppd python quicktime rar raw readline realmedia reflection samba scanner scrobbler sdl session sndfile snmp soundtouch spell spl sse sse2 ssl startup-notification stk subject-rewrite svg sysfs tcpd threads tiff truetype tta twolame unicode usb vorbis vst wav wavpack win32codecs winbind wma wmp x86 xattr xcf xml xorg xpm xprint xscreensaver xulrunner zip zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CAMERAS="*" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="intel"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

emerge -qpv openoffice:

[ebuild   R   ] app-office/openoffice-3.0.1  USE="cups dbus gnome gtk java pam -binfilter -debug -eds -gstreamer -kde -ldap -mono -nsplugin -odk -opengl -templates" LINGUAS="-af -ar -as_IN -be_BY -bg -bn -br -bs -ca -cs -cy -da -de -dz -el -en -en_GB -en_US -en_ZA -eo -es -et -fa -fi -fr -ga -gl -gu -he -hi_IN -hr -hu -it -ja -ka -kk -km -ko -ku -lt -lv -mk -ml_IN -mn -mr_IN -nb -ne -nl -nn -nr -ns -or_IN -pa_IN -pl -pt -pt_BR -ru -rw -sh -sk -sl -sr -ss -st -sv -sw_TZ -ta -te_IN -tg -th -ti_ER -tn -tr -ts -uk -ur_IN -ve -vi -xh -zh_CN -zh_TW -zu" 

[Comment 3 Peter Alfredsen (RETIRED) 2009-04-07 21:53:44 UTC]

In general, what kind of Desktop is this? KDE? Gnome? XFCE?

[Comment 4 Audiodef 2009-04-07 22:41:59 UTC]

Gnome. 

[Comment 5 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2009-04-08 19:57:51 UTC]

And what app are you trying to paste the contents into?

[Comment 6 Audiodef 2009-04-08 20:21:56 UTC]

Anything. Whatever. Nano, Vi, gedit, a sticky note, etc. 

NOTE: copying/pasting to/from other programs work after they've been closed. Openoffice is the one that doesn't wanna play fair. 

[Comment 7 Andreas Proschofsky (RETIRED) 2009-04-12 20:04:05 UTC]

Please file this upstream

http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/pre_submission.html

Not a lot we (Gentoo) can do here...