This is a very difficult problem to search for a solution.
I have actually reported this as a bug, however an admin repied to say that he didn't have the problem, therefore it isn't a problem.
I always edit text in the story editor, so I click on a text frame, press Ctrl T and the story editor opens, usually as a background window which I have to bring to the front. I position the cursor where I want to edit and start typing. Nothing happens. I close the story editor window.
When I then press Ctrl T to go back into the story editor, Scribus executes whatever was in the keyboard buffer on the whole text frame. If I had previously tried to delete text, Scribus now deletes the entire text frame. If I had previously pressed the right cursor arrow to move the cursor right, it moves the text frame right by as many steps as I pressed the right arrow.
If I close and reopen the story editor a few times, it then works normally. However, the problem will recur several times throughout any instance of using Scribus.
I am running 1.4.0 rc6 and I have uninstalled and reinstalled 3 times, deleting the home/me/.scribus folder and all of its settings.
Story editor is now pretty much unusable, which is annoying. I know that a lot of people prefer to edit text on canvas but I don't, I like the story editor's control, ease of use and speed.
This problem gets worse the more I am forced to use the on-canvass editor instead of the story editor. I am editing a large block of text on the back of a book cover, and as I type, not all of the letters make it into the text frame, for example "may think that this book can" becomes "may tthn btooan tan ta".
But that's not all, when I press backspace, I don't get a backspace, I get the next character that I had typed before characters stopped displaying. If I press backspace enough times, I get all of the remaining characters out, in no discernible order, and then I eventually start getting backspaces.
And is it a keyboard hardware problem?
I thought so at first, when I plugged in another keyboard and it worked... the first 3 times I tried. Then it stopped.
If I unplug the keyboard (USB) and plug it back again, the problem goes away for about 3 editing attempts, then it's back.
I also tried the OnBoard on screen keyboard to rule out a hardware problem. Same thing happens.
I'm at my wits end because my job depends on using Scribus, and right now it is becoming completely unusable, I have to all my text editing somewhere else as all I can do is copy & paste.
It's happening in other dialogue boxes too. I can't even edit colours now. To add a new colour, I have to type the colour's name in a text editor, copy it an paste it into the edit colours dialogue box with a mouse right click.
And Scribus is the only software I am having this problem with.