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Re: pasting into X11 applications from Aqua apps

Subject: Re: pasting into X11 applications from Aqua apps
From: Dave Williss <email@hidden>
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 09:08:14 -0500
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One way to deal with this in both directions would be for X11 to intercept access to the CLIPBOARD selection and use the Mac clipboard instead.

X apps use a couple of different methods to deal with the "clipboard"
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/ClipboardsWiki

If an X client sets the CLIPBOARD selection, the server (X11) could grab that content and place it onto the Mac clipboard. Likewise, when an X client tries to retrieve the CLIPBOARD extension, the X server could intercept it and give the client the current contents of the Mac clipboard.

This doesn't do anything for people who like to paste from the PRIMARY selection using the middle mouse button (which is the way you paste into an xterm), but for X apps that use Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V or have an Edit menu, this is how they usually expect to work.

Mark E. Perkins wrote:

On 2007/08/09 22:19, Ben Byer wrote:

Obviously, you want it to paste when you hit Cmd-V -- and we could probably assume you want it to paste into the frontmost window.


If by "frontmost window" you really mean the window with focus, then OK.  But
if one is using focus-follows-mouse, and the window with focus is not also
frontmost, then pasting into the frontmost window violates POLA in a rather
big way, I think.

Mark
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References:
	>Re: copy and paste between Aqua and X11 applications? (From: Vernon Williams <email@hidden>)
	>Re: copy and paste between Aqua and X11 applications? (From: Vincent Lefevre <email@hidden>)
	>Re: copy and paste between Aqua and X11 applications? (From: Rich Cook <email@hidden>)
	>Re: copy and paste between Aqua and X11 applications? (From: "Mark E. Perkins" <email@hidden>)
	>Re: copy and paste between Aqua and X11 applications? (From: Ben Eisenbraun <email@hidden>)
	>Re: copy and paste between Aqua and X11 applications? (From: "Mark E. Perkins" <email@hidden>)
	>Re: copy and paste between Aqua and X11 applications? (From: "Adam D. I. Kramer" <email@hidden>)
	>Re: copy and paste between Aqua and X11 applications? (From: Jonas Maebe <email@hidden>)
	>Re: copy and paste between Aqua and X11 applications? (From: "Adam D. I. Kramer" <email@hidden>)
	>Re: copy and paste between Aqua and X11 applications? (From: "Mark E. Perkins" <email@hidden>)
	>Re: copy and paste between Aqua and X11 applications? (From: Dave Williss <email@hidden>)
	>Re: pasting into X11 applications from Aqua apps (From: Ben Byer <email@hidden>)
	>Re: pasting into X11 applications from Aqua apps (From: "Mark E. Perkins" <email@hidden>)

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