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Re: copy and paste between Aqua and X11 applications?

Subject: Re: copy and paste between Aqua and X11 applications?
From: Rich Cook <email@hidden>
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 11:22:11 -0700
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On Jul 17, 2007, at 2:55 PM, Michael Reilly wrote:

Rich Cook wrote:
On Jul 17, 2007, at 2:47 PM, Michael Reilly wrote:
4) I place the cursor where I would like to paste the info from X11, and then press command-V or* paste.
Again this should not be necessary. middle button click should paste the selected text from step 1.

Select and paste has been a part of X11 since long before Apple ever had anything to do with it. For whatever reason Apple did not implement it properly when using X11 on OSX. Too bad.

michael

You're misunderstanding. He's pasting into an Aqua app.
That is no excuse for it not working. The machine has a mouse. I want to use it for something besides scrolling through 10 level deep menus. There is no excuse for Apple not to have a config option to enable use of the mouse.

It works fine, so no excuse is needed, and I never mentioned using a menu, and I have never seen one 10 levels deep. :-)

If you want to paste with your mouse, try right-clicking and choose "Paste" from the contextual menu that appears. And before you go hollering about the extra click in the menu, consider all the other options that you get with that right-click menu choice. It's not such a heinous world after all... It *would* be a bit nice if middle- click pasted from the clipboard in Aqua, though, since it's such a common operation.

Note that X11 only pastes TEXT with a middle click, and does not support drag-and-drop copy/paste, which would sometimes be very convenient to have.

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