From: Bob F. <rob...@kn...> - 2006-07-14 15:07:14
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On Fri, 2006-07-14 at 07:46 -0700, Ethan A Merritt wrote: > On Friday 14 July 2006 07:17 am, Petr Mikulik wrote: > > > Experimenting on my Linux machine, I downloaded (via CVS) and built > > > gnuplot Version 4.1 and successfully ran it. (You have some really nice > > > demo plots by the way.) Here, however, I can find nothing equivalent to > > > the "Copy to Clipboard" option offered in the Windows version. > > > > Maybe there is some fundamental issue here that I > > > don't understand. > > X11 clipboards are messy. There are at least two of them, and they must > be actively managed in order to work. This management is usually > mediated by some component of your desktop / window manager. > On KDE this component is called "klipper". I don't know what the > equivalent might be under Gnome, but if you are not running it already, > then turning it on might possibly change the clipboard behavior you see. > > Furthermore, the export from gnuplot to the clipboard can be turned on/off > by the X11 resource gnuplot_exprotselection. To make sure you have this > turned on (it should be on by default, but...) type > echo "gnuplot*exportselection: on" | xrdb -merge > before starting gnuplot. If this makes a difference, then you should > edit your Xdefaults file to make this change permanent > > > > Perhaps I am just missing it somewhere, but this should be useful for > > > pasting into Open Office documents. > > On Unixes, "middle mouse button" just works. Thus, do > > plot x*x > > and then in OpenOffice.org, click by middle mouse button and pasted plot > > is there! What a magic! > > That's the "paste from clipboard" side of it. > The "copy to clipboard" should happen automatically every time you > draw a plot, or click in the active plot window. Thanks to both of you for your responses. I was able to cut and paste a plot to Open Office, so the functionality is indeed available. Unfortunately, I have not been able to repeat the process. Apparently, this is a clipboard/Linux related issue, since the Edit/Past Special option is grayed out in OO. (It was available when I was first successful.) So I will try some of the things you suggested, Ethan. Thanks, Bob |