John Jason Jordan wrote: > Drag and drop is not working at all OOo 2.04 on Ubuntu Edgy. > > It worked fine until I upgraded from 2.02 to 2.04. > > I searched http://www.openoffice.org and the only thing I found was a > request from a user that a way to turn it off be added: > > http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=66315 > > However, I cannot understand for sure what it says on that page. It > says that it has been added to "requirements," which I guess means that > it is supposed to be fixed before the next release. It appears that it > was requested when 2.02 was the current release. But I don't see any > indication that it was or was not added. And if it was added, I don't > see anything relating to where the button to turn it on or off is > located. > > I have scoured all the options and settings, but cannot find any way to > turn it on or off. All I know is that it used to work before the > upgrade and now it does not. I also tested other applications (e.g., > AbiWord), and it still works there, so it is not an operating system > problem. > > I'm getting pretty desperate. Copying and pasting is time consuming. > Can anyone help?
I really recommend that you "uninstall" the Ubuntu version and install directly from OOo. I'll repeat my post from "Openoffice.org 2.0 crashes when save as..." ==== I'd recommend that you uninstall the Ubuntu version and reinstall 2.1 from the OOo downloads. Versions prior to 2.1 have security issues: http://secunia.com/search/?search=openoffice http://secunia.com/advisories/23612/ http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/220288 Interestingly enough, Ubuntu issued this security advisory: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-406-1 where neither package is older than 2.0.4... You can uninstall the Ubuntu version & install the OOo 2.1 version by following the directions here: http://bodmas.org/blog/?p=523 I would also recommend that you backup all critical files/documents/directories *prior* to performing any remove/installation of this type. Then do a: sudo apt-get update *before starting*. Also, be aware that when you uninstall ubuntu-desktop it will also uninstall the Ubuntu version of Thunderbird, so backup your Thunderbird files (if you use it) and reinstall Thunderbird (from Mozilla.com" afterwards. I think that once you install the OOo version your problems will be resolved. ==== I tried Edgy on 3 of my systems and after about 2 weeks of messing around with it I backed all of them down to Dapper (6.061 LTS). On one system Edgy screwed up the hard drive so bad that I had to actualy reformat and reinstall Dapper. Uninstalled ubuntu-desktop on all and installed OOo (2.1), Thunderbird (1.5.0.9), Firefox (1.5.0.9), Seamonkey (1.1), etc., directly and haven't looked back since. All are solid, work just fine, and that is on systems that range from 300Mhz, 350Mhz, 450Mhz, 640Mhz, 2.2Ghz, etc., all with ony 256Mb of RAM. As an added note: the Ubuntu version of OOo did not play well with *any* of my installations. Try the direct install; if it doesn't work you can always revert back & reinstall the Ubuntu version. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
