On Fri, Aug 10, 2007, Dave Williss wrote:
>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.
As I noted in a previous message, running xclipboard hoses
OpenOffice.org copy/paste/paste-special. As somebody explained,
the xclipboard somehow makes all the copy/paste pure text
operations which removes all the information OO-calc needs.
>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.
I noticed today that pasting in an xterm using the middle mouse button
didn't get the text highlighted with the left mouse button, but retrieved a
URL that I had previously selected in Firefox with Cmd-C to paste into an
e-mail message (mutt in an xterm).
This is on a PPC Mac Mini running 10.4.10 with all updates. The setup is a
bit unusual in that the Mac is plugged into a Belkin KVM switch via a
USB->PS/2 adapter with an old 3-button Logitech MouseMan, and a Microsoft
Natural keyboard.
On a slightly related topic, can anyone explain what xterm options control
the left-button double click selections? Double clicking in the xterm in
Apple's X11 on a file path name will highlight only the piece between
slashes, but the same action in an xterm on any reasonably recent SuSE
Linux xterm highlights the entire path. I see the same behaviour in xterms
running on CentOS 4.5 and CentOS 5. I really prefer it highlighting the
entire path. Is this something that can be defined in a $HOME/.Xresources
or $HOME/XTerm file or is it a compile time option?
Bill
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