Re: copy and paste between Aqua and X11 applications?
Re: copy and paste between Aqua and X11 applications?
- Subject: Re: copy and paste between Aqua and X11 applications?
- From: email@hidden (Shuying Wang)
- Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2004 19:23:49 +1000
On Sat, Jun 05, 2004 at 08:42:36AM +0000, Michael Abbott wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Jun 2004, Eugene Lee wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 10:16:26AM +1000, Shuying Wang wrote:
> > : Could someone tell me how copy and paste between Aqua and X11
> > : applications work?
> > You can copy/paste text by selecting Edit->Copy / Edit->Paste in the
> > X11.app global menu item, which basically let's the user manually copy
> > clipboard data between the Aqua and X11 environments.
> This works *some* of the time, but not reliably.
> This has been a problem in all versions of X11, and I see nothing to
> suggest that Apple have the slightest interest in addressing it (the last
> update to X11 seems to have been back in October).
Yes. I'm trying to understand how copy and paste works programmatically. I had
a look at the developers documentation on the Apple website and it
explains the clipboard interface between Cocoa/Carbon programs but it makes
no mention of how it works between native GUI apps and X11 apps.
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