Re: my open x11 issues
Re: my open x11 issues
- Subject: Re: my open x11 issues
- From: Clark Goble <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 17:53:43 -0600
___ Josh ___
| I've built a few apps, but the dock does not recognize
| them as applications. I'd much rather have an x11 'xterm'
| item on my dock, then to have to bring X11 to the
| foreground and do menu 'Applications' -> 'xterm'
___
I find the menu approach to running X11 applications rather cumbersome.
You're much better off generating Applescripts that then run your
application. And what is nice, the applescripts can have handlers so
that you can open files with a certain extension with your application,
support drag and drop, and so forth.
Here's one way to do it:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20021125060127218&query=app
lescript+fink
It doesn't actually run an X11 app. It applies a bunch filters to a .ps
file using ghostscript and then opens it with your default pdf reader.
But modifying the last line from the open command to the path of your
favorite X11 app gives you the functionality you may wish.
The only downside to this is that the icon won't represent whether your
actual X11 application is running or not. I don't know of a way to do
that.
___ Josh ___
| I'd like to see an option for 'Always export selected text to
| clipboard' so that x11's select-to-copy works as expected between
| normal OSX apps. Right now, select-to-copy only works in X11.
___
I'm not quite following you here.
___ Josh ___
| It would be great to have x11 be more "Mac" aware. Things like
| dragging and dropping files onto x11 windows (worked for me in
| Linux) don't look like they generate any events at all.
___
I'd like to see this as well. I'd definitely like to see a wider
support of clipboard types than just text. The big limit on using
OpenOffice or related applications is that while you can copy and paste
text, graphics or formatted text doesn't work. I'd think this would
just be a slight modification of the existing clipboard routines.
___ Josh ___
| can something please be done to bring 'mouse cursor focus' to OSX?
___
That'll never happen. It violates the basic UI of OSX far too much.
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