Sorry to be repetitive, but can you describe an exact sequence of actions
so that I can reproduce it here? When I select something in X11, hit
command-C, then go to an Aqua app and hit command-V, it works fine. Every
time. Unless my mouse passes over totalview as I mentioned, which seems
to steal the selection (and which affects X11 as well as a consequence,
not just the Mac clipboard, so it's an X11 problem, not an Apple bug
aFAICT). :-)
On Jul 17, 2007, at 2:55 PM, Adam D. I. Kramer wrote:
On Tue, 17 Jul 2007, Rich Cook wrote:
There has to be a reason it works for me without fail and for you only
occasionally.
Agreed. I'm glad not everyone has the problem for exactly that reason.
There's hope!
One sneaky thing I've seen with X11 is that sometimes there is an
application that "steals" the clipboard as you pass your mouse over it. It
can then paste emptiness into it. I forget what the application was
that was doing this. Might have been the Totalview debugger, in fact I'm
pretty sure it was.
Well, I'm usually just running 3 or 4 xterms. Usually, the program running
is ssh into another box, in which screen -x is called; inside the screen, I
mostly run things like pine and naim.
Open only an xterm, nothing else. Try copying text in it, then hit
command-C then paste into like Mail.app or whatever. If that doesn't
work, you've found yourself a serious bug that you should report to
https://bugreport.apple.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/RadarWeb.woa. If it does
work, then try launching your usual environment in X11, with all windows
showing. If that breaks it, you have a clue.
My usual environment is 4 xterms. Teh problem is that successful copying is
NOT an indication that "things work," because I can occasionally
successfully copy--I just can't explain or discern why I can't when I am
unable to. Indeed, if I go back into the x11 window and try again,
sometimes
it works...
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