OpenOffice.org on YDL -- Not Quite There?

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Clinton,

Good news: Copy and paste will work on ydl.

The yellow dog support site gives a link on its first page (scroll down !) 
for the solution.

see: http://porting.openoffice.org/linuxppc/ppclinks.html

have fun,  Rene Norbert





Citeren Clinton MacDonald <clint.macdonald@sbcglobal.net>:

> Friends:
> 
> Here is my rant about OpenOffice.org and, by
> extension, Yellow Dog Linux. Feel free to delete this
> message if rants bore or otherwise enrage you:
> 
> My main ax (a Titanium PowerBook G4) was temporarily
> out of commission, so I thought I would work on a
> grant application on my Wallstreet PowerBook running
> Yellow Dog Linux 3.0. Lately, I had been going to the
> Wallstreet more and more for mainstream uses, and this
> seemed like the perfect solution. OpenOffice.org 1.0.2
> on YDL seemed like the perfect application to work on
> the grant, which I had saved in RTF format.
> 
> About 60 seconds into my use of OO.o, I wanted to copy
> some text to place elsewhere in the document. Copy and
> paste does not work in OO.o. Let me say that again:
> copy and paste does not work in OpenOffice.org 1.0.2
> in Yellow Dog Linux.
> 
> A word processor without copy/paste is like a bicycle
> without wheels.
> 
> I looked at KWord and AbiWord, but each of them had
> flaws, too (usually unreadable fonts), but were at
> least usable. I could have moved on with either of
> them at this point. However, at this point, I tried to
> copy text from Konsole and paste it into Mozilla. That
> didn't work, either.
> 
> Right now, I am using the Wallstreet that I have
> rebooted into Mac OS X. It's slow and ponderous, but
> it gets 5-6 hours of battery life (with two
> batteries), and copy and paste *ALWAYS* works.
> 
> Grrr.
> 
> Best wishes,
> Clint
> 
> -- 
> Dr. Clinton C. MacDonald | <mailto:clint DOT macdonald
> AT sbcglobal DOT net>
> 
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