copy and past does not work half the time

[Jørgen Best]

Binary package hint: openoffice.org

I work with OpenOffice 3.0 (1:3.0.1-9ubuntu3) in Kubuntu 9.04, AMD64.

Often OpenOffice does not copy text, images, cels, etc. when following the standard procedure. When I select something in OpenOffice to copy (make selection, then Ctrl-C) there is only a short time I have available to copy. After that OpenOffice forgets what should be on the clipboard. The time I've got is random. Mostly I have only a few seconds. When trying to copy a few times in the end the text gets copied, but it's frustrating. With cutting and pasting information gets lost.

The problem is best viewed in Calc: there you can see the selected cels to copy. After a while the selection disapairs (no key or mouse button pressed).

I looked at options in Klipper, but that did not help me.
I also searched in the help if there is some weird option and I searched with Google.
It does not matter how you copy (mouse, keyboard). Even with unix-copy (just select and middle mouse button) this problem ocures.

OO is the only program where I detected this problem (Calc, Writer, presentation, all).
May be there is some strange inteference between KDE4 and OO?

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Package: openoffice.org-core 1:3.0.1-9ubuntu3
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=nl_NL.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: openoffice.org
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-13-generic x86_64