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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.Then it would have no value to me or any members of my team who expect X11 to work like X11. If they are not going to do it correctly then why bother? The effort could be better spent elsewhere.
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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