copy/paste not working

[Mike Marchywka]

Top posting for motivation :) If you try the suggesstions
below, and if in fact the copy adds control
chars you can probably fix it with a script- it is a little
extra effort but you can at least determine everything works
with it. I do this from time to time- the script reads from
clipboard, does something with contents, and writes it back out.
If you run od as suggested below you can either file a report
with relevant dev's or just modify contents with a script. 

On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 08:07:08PM +0000, Mike Marchywka wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 11:15:39AM -0700, rikona wrote:
> > On Mon, 22 Jul 2019 10:55:13 +0000
> > Mike Marchywka <marchywka at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 12:40:31PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf via
> > > ubuntu-users wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 22 Jul 2019 00:46:53 +0000, Mike Marchywka wrote:  
> > 
> > These have been helpful-
> > 
> > > > > xclip -o -selection p | strings
> > 
> > When I copy from falkon, whatever was in there before is cleared, but
> > the copied text is NOT there. So it seems KDE/falkon is doing
> > something, but not putting the copy there.
> > 
> > > > > xclip -o -selection s | strings
> > > > > xclip -o -selection clip | strings  
> > 
> > When I copy from falkon, these do not seem to change. The copied text
> > is not in any of these.
> Did you try to pipe it into "od" rather than "strings"? That could be a 
> special char in there somewhere hiding text. 
> > 
> > > > 
> > > > Or if xsel should be installed:
> > > > 
> > > >   xsel -p -o | strings
> > > >   xsel -s -o | strings
> > > >   xsel -b -o | strings
> > > > 
> > > > You not necessarily need to add '| strings', but I would do so, just
> > > > 'xsel -p -o' etc. works, too.  
> > > 
> > > I've been playing with a lot of things and may be confused
> > > but seem to recall now
> > > an issue with special or non-ASCII chars that prevented 
> > > pasting. 
> > 
> > I've noticed that when I copy text from a web page into kate, if I don't
> > highlight the text *EXACTLY* at the beginning and end of the text, it
> > seems to also copy chrs that prevent kate from printing all or part of
> > what was copied. I can see the full text on the screen in kate, so it
> > seems to paste OK, and it looks OK, but it won't print correctly.
> > This is also something that would be nice to fix.
> >
> Well again pipe it into 'od" with the options I suggested or
> whatever you like and see what is really there. This sounds promising.
> 
>  
> > Re the fixes - it looks like trying to use older KDE pgms, some of which
> > are no longer part of current KDE distros, may be at "end of life" :-)
> > and I will have to use less desirable [to me] current pgms instead.
> > Sometimes progress seems to go backward...
> >
> It is always hard to tell- when I got 'Beaver to run on old emachines
> it was probably better than old Debian ( 10 years old probably lol)
> in some ways ( and of course it supported more recent browsers etc).
> Although the machine was still too slow to browse a lot of modern
> web pages- and by modern I mean littered with video ads. 
>  
> > Thanks again.
> > 
> > 
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mike marchywka
306 charles cox
canton GA 30115
USA, Earth 
marchywka at hotmail.com
404-788-1216
ORCID: 0000-0001-9237-455X