Clipboard manager in xfce4 does not handle some objects used in openoffice.org

Bug #114125 reported by Olivier Robert
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Xfce4 Clipman Plugin
Confirmed
Unknown
xfce4-clipman-plugin (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
Lionel Le Folgoc

Bug Description

This bug appeared to me as I used openoffice draw under xubuntu 7.04.

When I want to clone an object within ooo draw, I utilize the copy/paste function.

But it doesn't work as expected! The pasted object has nothing to do with the original.

Other users reported a similar problem with other apps from the openoffice suite.

I suspect a conflict/interference with the clipboard manager featured with xubuntu, namely "xfce4-clipaman-plugin" :

If I disable this plugin, the copy/paste function works again. I do so for now but it's not a very convenient way to solve the problem, a clipboard manager is very useful for me.

Using glipper instead of clipman bring to the same problem. It's not a solution.

I think these clipboard managers can't handle the special metadata of the objects used in ooo.

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Olivier Robert (olivierr) wrote :

I discovered a very similar bug with glipper as the cause of the problem.
bug n°104432
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/glipper/+bug/104432

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Olivier Robert (olivierr) wrote :

Sorry, the bug 104432 is not really the same.

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Olivier Robert (olivierr) wrote :

I think this bug is caused by the clipboard manager "xfce4-clipman-plugin" that comes with the xfce desktop.
The problem is visible in openoffice draw but is not directly related to a bug in oOo.

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Jesus Gamio (jgamio) wrote :

I test this behaviour.

Xubuntu 7.04
xfce4-clipaman-plugin

Don't just to the openoffice.org-draw the same to openoffice.org-impress, openoffice.org-calc, openoffice.org-writer, Gnumeric

but dont to abiword or inkscape or Gimp

I think the problem come in from the copy because:

if you take a object from abiword to openoffice.org-writer works fine
If you have a text in the clipboard then copy from openoffice.org-writer the paste this paste the text before

Changed in xfce4-clipman-plugin:
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
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Jesus Gamio (jgamio) wrote :

I test it in some application but the problem is just with openoffice

Changed in xfce4-clipman-plugin:
status: Confirmed → Unconfirmed
Changed in openoffice.org:
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
Changed in xfce4-clipman-plugin:
importance: Undecided → Low
status: Confirmed → Triaged
Changed in xfce4-clipman-plugin:
status: Unknown → Confirmed
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Lionel Le Folgoc (mrpouit) wrote :

Works for me, at least in karmic, but it has probably been fixed sooner.

Changed in xfce4-clipman-plugin (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Lionel Le Folgoc (mrpouit)
status: Triaged → Fix Released
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