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Re: cut and paste, from quarts to X11 (cumbersome, but an alternative)



On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 22:07:11 -0700, Daniel M. German wrote:

> This might be of use to some of you.
> 
> I found in one of the OS X hints pages the following command:
> 
>    pbpaste 
> 
> It will allow you to display the "Paste" selection from quarts into an
> X11 app. It is cumbersome, but it works.
> 
> It is much better than saving to a file and reloading it inside X11.

Ah, great. I need this because I use Xnest and that does not support
quartz-wm --only-proxy.

pbcopy can be used to cut-and-paste from X11 to MacOSX. It reads from
stdin.

OK, time to think about a clever way to bind this somehow to my window
manager buttons/keys :-)

	rvdp
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