[GNC] cut/paste problem in 3.4?

[David Carlson]

Working with release 2.6.19 in Ubuntu 18.04 I also noticed that the
transaction  copy or cut action does not use the clipboard there either.  I
didn't have time to test pasting, however.

David Carlson



On Tue, Jul 2, 2019, 2:45 PM Paul Kinzelman <paul at kinzelman.com> wrote:

> Thanks for your replies, also to David T, your way of moving a transaction
> had not occurred to me before. I'll try that next time.
> I figured the copy/paste would work more easily, hadn't occurred to me
> that it was for going between different files.
>
> I'm just curious where GC stashes the transaction, doesn't seem to be
> on the standard copy/paste clipboard because I don't see it when I
> paste into a text editor. But it has to go someplace globally to be able
> to move between 2 different GC files.
>
> BTW, the transaction was same currency, same file, vanilla transaction.
> And Adrien, your test case captured what I did.
>
> And I don't think it's the keyboard, these laptop keys are pretty tight and
> I haven't spilled coffee or beer on it. :-) The control and C keys always
> work at other times reliably.
>
> I think the best thing to do at this point is to declare victory and move
> on
> because it's not repeatable. Maybe play with it a bit if it happens again.
>
> On 7/2/2019 1:23 PM, gnucash-user-request at gnucash.org wrote:
> > So, until or unless you could make it repeat the issue intentionally and
> repeatedly with the same steps, I?m afraid this one will have to be offered
> up to the digital gods to sort out.
> >
> > Finally, don?t discount a key not functioning. I?ve run myself ragged
> trying to figure out keyboard shortcuts not working properly (especially
> with cmd/ctrl/alt keys) only to discover that after removing the key caps,
> I saw some gunk underneath that was preventing the keypress from
> registering, though I was banging the heck out of it. A little cleaning
> with a q-tip and some rubbing alcohol, and... "magic!?  You can bring up an
> onscreen keyboard viewer that will highlight a key as you press it. Using
> that, you might see if the CTRL key is sticking or missing. (and test the
> other CTRL key as well)
>
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