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hello guys,

I'm using Mageia 3 64bit, The problem is Keyboard shortcuts like Ctrl-v, Ctrl-c,Ctrl+a does not work in some apps like kate, kwrite and Calligra when arabic layout is active

what i did exactly is :

#Open Kate, or kwrite type some text in arabic
#Select some text by mouse and press Ctrl-C it does not work even when i tried ctrl+a
# when i switch to english layout then type in English - Ctrl-v, Ctrl-c, Ctrl-x,Ctrl+a works

I tried using firefox,gedit,dolphin,Konqueror these programs works very well with Keyboard shortcuts.
any idea!

In Linux to copy to cliboard highlight using the left mouse button

to paste press centre mouse button or left and right buttons at the same time.

Isn't that easier than Ctrl C, Ctrl V?

Clipboard apps like parcellite or klipper in KDE allow you to use Ctrl C, Ctrl V or mouse highlighting or both according to the settings

djennings wrote:In Linux to copy to cliboard highlight using the left mouse button

to paste press centre mouse button or left and right buttons at the same time.

Isn't that easier than Ctrl C, Ctrl V?

Sorry, but this will only add confusion. You are right, but what you are describing is something different.
You are talking about X clipboard, which is different and separate from normal clipboard which most people refer to as copy&paste (ctrl+c,ctrl-v).

@kelly: Does it work using the mouse and context menu?
In kate, if you open the Edit menu, what shortcuts does it show next to the actions you want to use?
Did you maybe set up custom shortcuts under Settings -> configure shortcuts ?

djennings wrote:In Linux to copy to cliboard highlight using the left mouse button

to paste press centre mouse button or left and right buttons at the same time.

Isn't that easier than Ctrl C, Ctrl V?

Clipboard apps like parcellite or klipper in KDE allow you to use Ctrl C, Ctrl V or mouse highlighting or both according to the settings

i use mouse to select and paste with no problem, but my problem with these programs i can't use keyboard shortcuts like i said in the topic

doktor5000 wrote:

djennings wrote:In Linux to copy to cliboard highlight using the left mouse button

to paste press centre mouse button or left and right buttons at the same time.

Isn't that easier than Ctrl C, Ctrl V?

Sorry, but this will only add confusion. You are right, but what you are describing is something different.
You are talking about X clipboard, which is different and separate from normal clipboard which most people refer to as copy&paste (ctrl+c,ctrl-v).

@kelly: Does it work using the mouse and context menu?
In kate, if you open the Edit menu, what shortcuts does it show next to the actions you want to use?
Did you maybe set up custom shortcuts under Settings -> configure shortcuts ?

yes it works using mouse and context menu, but with keyboard shortcuts it's not.
in kate the shortcut next to copy ctrl+c, next to cut ctrl+x, next to paste ctrl+v

i put a custom shortcuts for copy, ctrl+I and still not working there is an error msg
"The key sequence 'Ctrl+I' is ambiguous"

why is the default shortcuts not working already!? i used PCLinuxOS before i use mageia and these shortcuts working very well

maybe it is a bug! see this
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=320423

As you can see people with only one keyboard layout are not affected, and this is a QT bug. You will have to wait until it's fixed,
maybe you can use that workaround one guy in the bugreport mentioned.

doktor5000 wrote:As you can see people with only one keyboard layout are not affected, and this is a QT bug. You will have to wait until it's fixed,
maybe you can use that workaround one guy in the bugreport mentioned.

Thank you doktor5000