On 2007-08-09 10:07:36 -0700, Rich Cook wrote:
Wow, so to be clear, if you select text in X11,
This isn't really clear. You need to say which X11 application,
because unlike Mac OS X applications, each X11 application has its
own way to deal with selections (and sometimes, like in xterm, the
behavior is configurable).
use Cmd-C, then deselect the text by clicking somewhere else in X11,
If the text has been selected in xterm, clicking somewhere else in X11
deselects the text[*], but for other X11 applications, the text
remains
selected.
[*] I suppose this is the same xterm bug I've reported here:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=277832
Indeed, if you type "screen" in the xterm (then Ctrl-D to quit screen)
instead of clicking somewhere else in X11, you'll get the same
problem.
then paste into say, Mail.app, it works fine for you? Try it and
see. It should fail.
I now see the same problem. This is strange, because I'm quite sure
that this was working differently in the past.
More precisely (I've done the test with xterm and a GTK application):
* Select something in the X11 application.
* Type Cmd-C.
* Select something else in the same X11 application or another one.
* Paste in Mac OS X.
The result is that the second selection is pasted.
It seems that Cmd-C in X11 doesn't copy anything: it just says "I own
the clipboard" (but X11 checks that something is selected, otherwise
it beeps). Then, when pasting in Mac OS X for the first time after the
Cmd-C, X11 copies the selection from the current PRIMARY selection
(which may have changed since the Cmd-C).
Note: X Window also has a clipboard, which is different from the
PRIMARY selection, and which you can use with Cut/Copy/Paste menu
items (or keyboard shortcuts Ctrl-X/C/V). But X11.app doesn't seem
to use it at all (though it is much more similar to the Mac OS X
clipboard than the PRIMARY selection is). Apple should probably
make that configurable. As for me, I prefer the PRIMARY selection,
but some users may prefer the clipboard.
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