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I recently upgraded to Crossover 22.

While copying from Linux to Windows works, copying in the Windows-->Linux direction stopped working. Anybody else having this issue? Tips or workarounds appreciated.

Hello,

I have the same random issue after the upgrade on a Linux Mint 21 system. The clipboard manager (CopyQ) starts detecting the texts copied from Windows programs as “<DATA>”, and I can not paste them.

Sometimes it starts working again after using the copy/paste shortcut keys (Ctrl + C and Ctrl + V) instead of the context menu.
Hope this could be fixed.

Regards

Does it make a difference which program you copy from? Does notepad work? (Notepad can be started using Run Command.)

I have the same issue when copying from MS Office 2016 Word or Excel and pasting into Gmail in Chrome, Wordpress, terminal or other applications. I can paste into LibreOffice Writer and Files. Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V or Ctrl+Shift+V do not appear to make any difference.

I'm having the same issue. The major applications I use are Scrivener 3 Aeon Timeline 3.0. Both worked without any issue in Crossover 21 on Fedora 36 (with the minor tweak of the speech SAPI in Scrivener). I had to uninstall v21 to get v22 to install. Afterward, cut and paste would no longer work seamlessly between the two applications or between them and LibreOffice. I had to use a text editor to make it work (xed, in my case).

I ended up uninstalling v22 due to terrible performance issues (it made Aeon Timeline almost unusable) and reinstalling v21. Unfortunately, whatever changes v22 makes to the bottles were not undone after the reinstall and copy/paste still did not work. Only after I restored my previous bottles did copy & paste return to working order.

I am having exactly this same problem and am pulling my hair out over it. Was anything ever discovered to get past this bug?

It seems to be fixed with Crossover 23. But a new issue was added:

• The font type instead of the real text is copied/cut when I select text with the mouse in Office 2007 and I copy/cut it with the shortcuts Ctrl + C and Ctrl + X .
• The font type is edited instead of the real text when I paste something over a selection made with the mouse with the shortcut Ctrl + V.
• There is no issue when the text is selected with the keyboard (Shift key + directional arrows).

I've got the same issue with copying/pasting the font type in Word, Excel and Powerpoint (2010) in Crossover 23 running on Ubuntu 23.04 (both Wayland and X11 sessions).

Cause:
It turns out that the semi-visible popup toolbar that shows when you select text with the mouse apparently gets focus (the font textbox) when one presses the Ctrl-key.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Mark a section of text in Word, Excel or Powerpoint with the mouse (e.g., double-click a word)
2. Observe the popup toolbar being shown
3. Attempt to copy the marked text by pressing Ctrl-C
4. Observe when the Ctrl-key is pressed, the text in the toolbar's font-box gets focus
5. When Ctrl-C now is pressed, the font name is copied

The same issue happens when one is to replace marked text with something on the clipboard (the text is pasted in the font textbox instead of replacing the selected text).

Workaround:
Alt 1: click the copy or paste button in the top toolbar
Alt 2: when text has been selected with the mouse, move the mouse pointer to that the popup toolbar is closed
Alt 3: select text with shift+arrow keys

I think this issue is new to Crossover 23 as I have not noticed it with any previous version.

I am still having this problem in several applications. I cannot reliably copy text from a windows program running in Crossover Linux 23 to a native Linux program. The copy - paste works fine from one Crossover program to another, but not from a Crossover program to native linux.

Is there any progress being made toward finding what unifying problem may explain these regular posts complaining about copy paste?

L Hunter wrote:

I am still having this problem in several applications. I cannot reliably copy text from a windows program running in Crossover Linux 23 to a native Linux program. The copy - paste works fine from one Crossover program to another, but not from a Crossover program to native linux.

Is there any progress being made toward finding what unifying problem may explain these regular posts complaining about copy paste?

Hi there,

Please enter a support ticket with the exact applications you're trying to copy/paste between. I know we've had trouble reproducing, so exact steps would be helpful for troubleshooting.

Best,
Meredith

Same problem with the last version 24.0.1. The only option right now is to click on Alt key after any text selection, it let us to copy o paste with Ctrl+C or Ctrl+V.

Same problem here with Crossover 24.0.1 and Notepad++. I am not able to copy from Notepad++ to MacOS :-(

Niklas, I had the same problem. Here is the fix (MS Word 2007 - in other versions use lateral thinking):

1. Click on the 'Office Button' (top left hand corner of the window)
2. Select 'Word Options' button at the bottom of the menu that pops up.
3. Select 'Popular' and there in "Top options for working with Word' UN-TICK 'Show Mini Toolbar on selection'
4. Done.
   This prevents the irritating toolbar from appearing and copy-paste via the mouse now works as expected.

Thanks Peter. Disabling that option solves most of the issues. Sadly, the mini toolbar always appears on right-clicking, and there is no way to prevent it.

The font can be easily edited by mistake when that mini toolbar is visible (the focus is set to the font name by default). This could end freezing Word after giving this error message:
"The font ‘xxx' is not available on your system. Do you want to use it anyway?"

Hope it could be fixed with a new release, or maybe adding an option to use a specific Wine version on some bottles. By now, I have two Crossover versions installed, the latest one (24.0.4) and the 21.2.0 version to deal with this issue in my system.