Clipboard compatibility: KDE, Wine & OpenOffice

Pascal A. Niklaus Pascal.Niklaus at unibas.ch
Thu May 22 16:29:15 BST 2003


On Tuesday 29 April 2003 17:23, Pascal A. Niklaus wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I noticed the following phenomenon in KDE3.1.1:
>>
>> I can copy data from a Windows application running in Wine to
>> OpenOffice Writer and then from OpenOffice to KDE apps (KWrite/KWord).
>>
>> However, the same data cannot be copied directly from Wine to KDE apps.
>>
>> Why is that? Does Wine use a clipboard that is not compatible to KDE?

>Hmm, what did you do?
>
>I just tried:
>starting notepad.exe in WINE.
>writing some text, selecting text, CTRL+C to copy to cliboard
>starting Kate: pasting works with middle mouse click and CTRL+V
>
>Cheers,
>Kevin

Hmm, it works in Kate, but not in KEdit, KWord etc... Are the MIME-Types
not ok?

Pascal



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