Re: Help with copy and paste
Re: Help with copy and paste
- Subject: Re: Help with copy and paste
- From: matt parry <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 01:27:45 -0800 (PST)
to do with cut/paste, what does autocutsel do? i have
it with fink and got it when i had X11 0.3--i thought
it was meant to keep the X11 and OS clipboards synced,
as it were.
--- Robert Forster <email@hidden> wrote:
> >>> Steve Lidie <email@hidden> 11/27/03 03:48PM
> >>>
>
> On Nov 27, 2003, at 2:46 PM, Robert Forster wrote:
>
> > Unfortunately the X11 app I want to copy from
> doesn't have an edit
> > menu.
> > I just now installed abiword so I can copy to it,
> and then from
> > abiword
> > to my Mac app. This seems to work, although when I
> first hit cmd-v
> to
> > paste into the app , nothing is pasted, but when I
> hit it a second
> time
>
> >I reported this shortly after Panther was released,
> please see the
> >archives. Sometimes multiple paste tries are
> required. However, it
> >doesn't appear to be solely an X11.app problem -
> similar events are
> >missed doing copy/paste within the OS. So, *most*
> of the time all you
>
> >need is patience - the copy always seems to work,
> just keep pasting ;)
>
> >Rarely, I cannot get a paste to work at all, and
> re-type manually.
>
> Interestingly, when I paste into Adobe Illustrator I
> only ever have to
> paste just the once, it picks it up fine. I wonder
> why some Mac apps are
> different.
>
> >Using a 3-button mouse:
>
> >X11 <=> X11 : B1 to copy, B2 to paste
>
> >OS X => X11 : B1 to highlight then clover-C to
> copy, B2 to paste
>
> >>X11 => OS X : B1 to highlight then clover-C to
> copy, clover-V to
> paste
>
> Right?
> not clover-c on the X11 side,
> The last one should be
>
> X11 => OS X : B1 to highlight then ctl-C to copy (if
> the X11 app
> supports it, otherwise you need to paste into an X11
> app that does using
> the first procedure), clover-V to paste.
>
> Not the easiest but it works. And it sure beats
> typing out scientific
> species names with all the typos that I'm bound to
> make!
>
> Cheers!
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