Opened 13 years ago
Closed 13 years ago
#32981 closed defect (invalid)
gnumeric copies formula value instead of the formula
| Reported by: | davidfjackson222@… | Owned by: | macports-tickets@… |
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| Priority: | Normal | Milestone: | |
| Component: | ports | Version: | 2.0.3 |
| Keywords: | Cc: | jeremyhu (Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia) | |
| Port: | gnumeric |
Description
When I copy and paste a cell that contains a formula in gnumeric it copies the value of the formula instead of copying the formula itself. It seems to be using the X11 clipboard instead of gnumeric's own. In Preferences > Tools > Copy and Paste, Prefer Clipboard over Primary is checked.
It sounds very similar to this ubuntu bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnumeric/+bug/434990
Change History (4)
comment:1 Changed 13 years ago by ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)
comment:2 follow-up: 3 Changed 13 years ago by ecronin (Eric Cronin)
unless you're running klipper or one of the other tools mentioned in the ubuntu bug, this is probably some sort of interaction with the X11 clipboard <-> Mac pasteboard synchronization XQuartz does by default. You can try disabling that in the X11.app preferences and see if formulas copy correctly.
comment:3 Changed 13 years ago by davidfjackson222@…
Replying to ecronin@…:
unless you're running klipper or one of the other tools mentioned in the ubuntu bug, this is probably some sort of interaction with the X11 clipboard <-> Mac pasteboard synchronization XQuartz does by default. You can try disabling that in the X11.app preferences and see if formulas copy correctly.
I disabled pasteboard syncing in the X11 preferences and this fixed the problem. Thanks for telling me about that and sorry for the incorrect report.
comment:4 Changed 13 years ago by ecronin (Eric Cronin)
| Cc: | jeremyhu@… added |
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| Keywords: | gnumeric clipboard removed |
| Resolution: | → invalid |
| Status: | new → closed |
That's more a workaround than a fix, since now you can't copy from a mac app and paste into an X app or the reverse, but it may be the best that's possible given the two very different clip/pasteboard architectures. cc'ing Jeremy since he'd know if it's possible to fix this in XQuartz (Inkscape has similar problems, I'm guessing the XQuartz synch flattens any active selections to passive ascii or a bitmap right away?)...
Closing the ticket since there's nothing that can be changed in gnumeric or macports for this.
So what would you like us to do about this? It does not sound like a MacPorts-specific problem; it sounds like something the developers of the software need to resolve, if they consider it to be a bug.