Unable to copy-paste from LibreOffice Calc to Zim on GNOME desktop (but was possible with Unity)

[barrel0luck]

Before Ubuntu switched to the GNOME desktop, Zim on Unity could paste tables copied from LibreOffice Calc as an image. However, in 18.04, with the GNOME desktop, this does not work anymore. Instead I'm reduced to taking screenshots of tables and then embedding them into Zim, which takes longer and is more annoying.

[jaap-karssenberg]

What is your version of zim?

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On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 3:03 PM barrel0luck ***@***.***> wrote: Before Ubuntu switched to the GNOME desktop, Zim on Unity could paste tables copied from LibreOffice Calc as an image. However, in 18.04, with the GNOME desktop, this does not work anymore. Instead I'm reduced to taking screenshots of tables and them embedding them into Zim, which takes longer and is more annoying. — You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#673>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/ABMMHg4Ig6R5Y6rKuiqvX2SM9FCUjP_Jks5vNWy5gaJpZM4a7qOz> .

[barrel0luck]

[barrel0luck]

Sorry, I accidentally closed the issue.

[e3rd]

Works for me perfectly, Zim 0.70-rc3, Ubuntu 18.10.

[barrel0luck]

I'm on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. I don't have that version of Zim. Even the flathub version is 0.69.1.
And it doesn't work on my system.

[e3rd]

I am sorry for you then. :( I'm not sure there will be a patch backported to this version. You may either wait Jaap release a new version or try deploy the actual repository. It's in fact very easy:

1. You just download the whole repository
2. Put the contents of the data folder to /usr/share/zim/
3. Put the contents of the zim folder to /usr/lib/python3.6/
4. Put the contents of the zim.py file as /usr/bin/zim file

(This is unofficial but that worked for me.)

[barrel0luck]

Thanks, I was not even sure if someone was aware of this bug. If it's been fixed already, I can wait for the new version.

[jaap-karssenberg]

Not sure this depends on the zim version. Please let us know if it works again after the 0.70 release.

[barrel0luck]

Okay, I will, thanks.

[barrel0luck]

Hi, so I was testing this issue again and I have an update.
I'm on Zim version 0.71 now.
I still have the issue (but read further).
Since @e3rd commented that he did not, I decided to test if my notebook had the problem.
So I made a new one and there copy pasting worked perfectly.
However, copy pasting does not work in my previous notebook.
All I can think of is that my notebook is really really really long. It's just a single page notebook and I enter a new date as a new heading and not a separate page (I needed scrollable continuity between dates). So maybe after copy-pasting many many images in my notebook, I reached a point where this feature broke - and I thought at that time that it had something to do with updating the distro.
That being said, I'm still able to add images using Insert -> Image... in my previous notebook, but the shortcut Ctrl V does not work.
Hope this helps!

[jaap-karssenberg]

Can't think immediately of a way how the length of the page would affect the paste behavior. However in general Zim is optimized for many small to medium pages rather than a few very large pages. Regards, Jaap Op wo 15 mei 2019 16:10 schreef barrel0luck <notifications@github.com>:

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Hi, so I was testing this issue again and I have an update. I'm on Zim version 0.71 now. I still have the issue (but read further). Since @e3rd <https://github.com/e3rd> commented that he did not, I decided to test if my notebook had the problem. So I made a new one and there copy pasting worked perfectly. However, copy pasting does not work in my previous notebook. All I can think of is that my notebook is really really really long. It's just a single page notebook and I enter a new date as a new heading and not a separate page (I needed scrollable continuity between dates). So maybe after copy-pasting many many images in my notebook, I reached a point where this feature broke - and I thought at that time that it had something to do with updating the distro. That being said, I'm still able to add images using Insert -> Image... in my previous notebook, but the shortcut Ctrl V does not work. Hope this helps! — You are receiving this because you commented. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#673?email_source=notifications&email_token=AAJQYHSDZYJNE3C6FJXPLKDPVQKTVA5CNFSM4GXOUOZ2YY3PNVWWK3TUL52HS4DFVREXG43VMVBW63LNMVXHJKTDN5WW2ZLOORPWSZGODVOZACY#issuecomment-492670987>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AAJQYHWACHQSF66YIFCQ7VTPVQKTVANCNFSM4GXOUOZQ> .

[barrel0luck]

Alright! Thanks!
You can do as you see fit with this issue.

[e3rd]

What's the size of the big file and of the images?
Would you be able to re-make such a broken file with no personal traces in order to be uploaded here and tested by the community?

[barrel0luck]

I tried to, but got tired and bored right away :)
I don't know how I can do what you are asking for.
My notebook has labnotes accumulated over years in it. So it's really big and has loads of images...

[e3rd]

Every Zim page is stored as a pagename.txt file + pagename folder on the disk. Couldn't you check the folder and tell us what is the size of the file and size of the folder + number of files (images) in the folder? :)

[barrel0luck]

Sure:
size of pagename.txt file: 681.1 kB
size of folder: 211.6 MB
number of files: 1964 files (all png images of screenshots or copy paste images from spreadsheets).

[e3rd]

Thanks for the info, this may help in the future testing! :)

[jaap-karssenberg]

Will close this issue unless there is a way to reproduce