Copy and Past in Unity on Precise
I just upgraded to Precise and have a problem that I did not have before, copy and past fails about 1/4 of the time. I will experience problem and note what I did and then attempt to repeat the steps and it will work. As a result so far I can't determine a list of steps to reproduce the problem reliably.
At first I was blaming myself thinking I must have pressed the wrong key or fat fingered the keyboard etc. So to eliminate that as a factor I began using either "copy" from the menu shown when right clicking or manually selecting "copy" from the "edit" menu and still about 1/3 of the time I copy something when I go to past the clipboard is empty. How I choose "copy" seems to have no effect either way.
I have had the problem occur bolt when copying and pasting between applications as well as when copying and pasting within the same application. I have experience the problem when copying text, images, etc as well as entire files and/or directories.
I have searched around and found a few old reports of people experience similar problems on older versions of Ubuntu. Most have not had yielded anything useful. However I did find, https:/
It is from 2008 and references thing to do under Gnome / KDE desktop. I am running the Unity desktop, are the suggestions made in 33469 still relevant?
I would really love to nail this down but I am unsure of where to look or how to best troubleshoot this. It seems to happen almost randomly and as so a result I have so far been unsuccessful in figuring out a set of steps that reliably reproduce the problem.
Any advice or ideas on where I should look or thing I should test for or ideas / advice on how to proceed etc. would be helpful and appreciated.
Thanks in advance for your time and for sharing your knowledge!
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