xwinclip and openoffice

xwinclip and openoffice

[Øyvind Harboe]

Just a few more comments to my question:

If I do not start xwinclip, I can copy and paste e.g. formulas in OpenOffice, or 
tables from OpenOffice to an Evolution HTML email.

This is what is going on AFAICT:

xwinclip detects when my Linux box is updating its clipboard and then updates the 
windows clipboard.

At this point xwinclip updates the linux clipboard, since the windows clipboard changed. 

However, the linux<->windows clipboard format translations are inheritly lossy, and hence
I want xwinclip to avoid them if it can.

Øyvind

xwinclip and openoffice

[Øyvind Harboe]

I'm switching my working environment from Outlook and Office to
Evolution and OpenOffice. I run CygWin xfree on various PC's to access
my Evolution + OpenOffice running on my Linux box.

One feature that I've lost is the ability to copy&paste non-text.

- In a spreadsheet only the values are copied, not the formulas.
- When I copy a spreadsheet range into an HTML email, I get only text,
no tables. HTML email is expedient for internal reporting purposes, for
the rest of the world I normally use PDF. 

If these features are supported, how do I enable them?

Øyvind

xwinclip and openoffice

[Øyvind Harboe]

Q: How can I copy from an openoffice spreadsheet to Evolution HTML
e-mail?

Background:

Recently I've had a lot of success in using CygWin x server to access
my Evolution e-mail client running on my Linux box. 

However, when I try to copy a range of cells from openoffice calc,
xwinclip.exe immediately causes a segmentation fault and the
cygwin x server shuts down. My openoffice spreadsheet has some
tables/colors that I would like to paste into an Evolution HTML mail.
This works fine on my Linux box when I do it via a VNC session.

After a bit of googling, I see that others have had similar problems
and that support for "COMPOUND_TEXT" is planned.

http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2003-04/msg00249.html
http://xfree86.cygwin.com/devel/todo.html


Øyvind