Cut and paste is not working.

kasunbg · 03-11-2009, 10:36 AM

Hey, I'm using Kubuntu 8.10 and from last week I can not cut/copy and paste using gui. When I click on cut/copy buttons it does not enable the paste button(in the context menu which i get when right clicked on a file)

Terminal cp command is working and I can copy/paste texts. And I can drag and drop files too. But It is a pain without regular cut and copy.

Any solution for this please.

Thanks

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Kasun Gajasinghe,
University of Moratuwa,
Sri Lanka.

Tinkster · 03-11-2009, 10:57 AM

Hi, welcome to LQ!

Please make it a habit to be specific in what
you're talking/asking about; seeing your thread
title I assumed you can't copy & paste text between
apps .. only towards the end it becomes clear that
you're talking about a GUI file-manager. It would
be important to know which one you're using, and
from which location to which new location you're
trying to copy.

Cheers,
Tink

malekmustaq · 03-11-2009, 11:12 AM

kasunbg:

I suppose you are using Thunar of Kfce. Try use Cut & Paste using "the same window", browse to the dir to paste to, if it works fine, I had that issue before.

If not, check the file permissions you're working on.

kasunbg · 03-11-2009, 11:33 AM

Sorry for not being specific

I tried using dolphin and konquerer. Both acts same. I'm trying to copy files in my home folder and I have rights to do that.(I can copy same file to same location using terminal but it is easy if I have GUI).

Thanks

Tinkster · 03-11-2009, 02:09 PM

What *is* the target location? What do you see in a terminal (or in ~/.xsession-errors) when
you fire konqueror up in a konsole? Does it give you any hints/errors?

kasunbg · 03-12-2009, 09:38 AM

I tried several places.say , for example from /home/Kasun/ to /home/Documents.
And the same thing can be done without causing error using cp command.

Here's what I get when I fire konquerer and dolphin. I couldn't understand it much.

Code:

Kasun@kasun~cse:~$ konqueror
konqueror(5541) KonqViewManager::setCurrentProfile: "webbrowsing" localPath= "/home/Kasun/.kde/share/apps/konqueror/profiles/webbrowsing"
konqueror(5541) KHTMLView::focusNextPrevChild: focusNode.name:  "a"
Object::connect: No such signal DolphinView::redirection(KUrl,KUrl)
konqueror(5541) KParts::BrowserExtension::slotSetActionText: BrowserExtension::slotSetActionText  paste   "Paste"
konqueror(5541) KParts::BrowserExtension::slotSetActionText: BrowserExtension::slotSetActionText  paste   "Paste"
konqueror(5541) KonqClosedWindowsManager::removeClosedItemsConfigFiles: "/tmp/kde-Kasun/closeditems/"
Kasun@kasun~cse:~$
Kasun@kasun~cse:~$ dolphin
Kasun@kasun~cse:~$

The following is the line generated when I click on copy

Code:

konqueror(5541) KParts::BrowserExtension::slotSetActionText: BrowserExtension::slotSetActionText  paste   "Paste"

I can not paste anywhere as my paste button is not enabled. I pressed Ctrl+V, but that also doesn't work nor show any errors.

kasunbg · 03-12-2009, 10:47 AM

This is the section in ~/.xsession-errors that is related to the loading konquerer-> go to ~/Documents folder-> click on copy by right clicking a file(or Ctrl+C).

Code:

kdeinit4: preparing to launch
kdeinit4: preparing to launch
kdeinit4: preparing to launch
[/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub] (ServerCore) new socket connection.
kdeinit4: preparing to launch
kio_trash(5564) TrashImpl::init: initialization OK, home trash dir:  "/home/Kasun/.local/share/Trash"
kio_trash(5564) TrashProtocol::listDir: listdir:  KUrl("trash:/")
kio_trash(5564) TrashImpl::infoForFile: 0   "alien"
kio_trash(5564) TrashImpl::infoForFile: 0   "New Folder (2)"
kio_trash(5564) TrashImpl::infoForFile: 0   "New Folder"
kio_trash(5564) TrashImpl::infoForFile: 0   "other"
kio_trash(5564) TrashProtocol::createUDSEntry: couldn't stat  "/home/Kasun/.local/share/Trash/files/alien"
[/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub] nepomukservicestub(5091) Nepomuk::FileWatch::slotFileDeleted: KUrl("file:///home/Kasun/.kde/share/apps/konqueror/autosave/owned_by_1.72")
[/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub] nepomukservicestub(5091) Nepomuk::FileWatch::removeMetaData: KUrl("file:///home/Kasun/.kde/share/apps/konqueror/autosave/owned_by_1.72")
QObject: Do not delete object, 'unnamed', during its event handler!
X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3
  Major opcode:  20
  Minor opcode:  0
  Resource id:  0x3200001
[/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub] Removing connection
Kasun@kasun~cse:~$

And for further detail, I recently changed my hostname by editing /etc/hostname and /etc/hosts files. Is it related with this? I think it's not, but just mentioned.

A help will be much appreciated. Thanks for your concern.

Tinkster · 03-12-2009, 01:35 PM

This all doesn't reveal too much I'm afraid. Try creating a new users,
and see how that behaves. If the copy & paste works there it's maybe
some setting you accidentally changed.