Re: Gnumeric and RHEL3

[Martin Donald <mhd slac stanford edu>]

Thanks everyone,

I seem to have stirred quite a discussion with my problem.

Gnumeric (1.0.12-3) on RedHat 9 will accept cut and paste from xterm
and emacs, gnumeric (1.2.1-1) on RHEL3 (with some rpms from fedora
core 1) will not. I suspect that the change is in other parts of
gnome rather than in gnumeric itself. I still have another machine on
RH9 so that I can check.

I have tried Nick Lamb's suggestion 

     The command `M-x menu-bar-enable-clipboard' makes the `Cut', `Paste'
  and `Copy' menu items, as well as the keys of the same names, all use
  the clipboard.

but it does not seem to work for me, and would still leave the xterm
problem. Using gedit as an intermediary is a workaround.

Perhaps the gconf suggested by Morten Welinder holds a clue. I'm just
a user, not a linux programmer, and am ignorant of such things. I find
in  /etc/gconf/schemas/gnumeric-general.schemas

      <schema>
        <key>/schemas/apps/gnumeric/cut-and-paste/prefer-clipboard</key>
        <applyto>/apps/gnumeric/cut-and-paste/prefer-clipboard</applyto>
        <owner>Gnumeric</owner>
        <type>bool</type>
        <default>TRUE</default>
        <locale name="C">
        <short>Prefer CLIPBOARD over PRIMARY selection</short>
        <long>When TRUE, Gnumeric will prefer the modern CLIPBOARD selection over the legacy PRIMARY 
selections.  Set to FALSE if you have to deal with older applications, like Xterm or Emacs, which set only 
the PRIMARY selection.</long>
        </locale>

I will try working on that.

I still have that other problem, that of not getting the correct gnome
widget for parsing of imported data, one of my libraries must be
wrong. The widget that appears has the title "Text Import
Configuration" and is 1280x617 pixels in its (unchangeable) size. In
which library does the proper one reside?

On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 10:13:41AM -0400, Morten Welinder wrote:
> > The Emacs maintainers have, so I'm told, promised to fix this more than
> > once. I think in the end as a compromise they've elected to leave the default
> > Emacs behaviour broken (as that matches the expectations of long-term Emacs
> > users who would otherwise complain) and provide a set of hooks...
>
> We ought to invite Havoc over here too.
>
> Anything that does not interoperate with the default terminal window (that
> would be xterm) is broken.  No "ifs" and no "buts" about it.
>
> Thus, Gnome (and not Emacs) is broken in this regard.  And it should be
> considered broken until such time the authors of the new wannabe-standard
> implement _and_ _widely_ _deploy_ changes to xterm to make it use the new
> proposed standard.  That should perhaps have been initiated years ago, but
> it was not -- a grand failure of those who support the new behaviour.
>
> Gnumeric supports both broken (Gnome) and correct (xterm) behaviour.  There
> is a gconf key for it.  I know because I put it there.
>
> Morten
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Thanks again everyone.

-- 
            Martin Donald               mhd slac stanford edu