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: Haroon Sheikh <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2004 11:32:36 -0700
10.3.4 which was just released does have a few bug fixes for X11. There
was a bug where pastes into Aqua environments (copy originating in X11)
sometimes required 2 paste operations to succeed. This bug was fixed in
10.3.4. Please give it try and if you still see bugs or problems,
please file a bug report at http://developer.apple.com/bugreporter.
Here's the Q&A on Copy/Paste from the X11 faq at
http://developer.apple.com/qa/qa2001/qa1232.html in case it answers
some of your questions.
Q: How do I copy and paste using X11 for Mac OS X?
A: X11 for Mac OS X allows cut and paste between X11 and native
applications using PRIMARY and PASTEBOARD selections.
You can cut text from X11 applications by selecting the text,
performing a cmd-c or copy operation. You can paste in native Mac OS X
applications as usual using Cmd-V.
Because there is no standard for pasting in X11 applications (some use
middle mouse button, some use control-v, etc.), cmd-v doesn't work for
pasting in X11 applications by design. As a result, the "Paste" menu
item will be grayed out when X11 applications are in focus. You should
use the control-v or the middle mouse button instead for pasting (See
X11 Preferences for emulating a middle mouse button).
The "Paste" menu option will be active when non-X windows are active
within X11.app (e.g., when entering text in the "Customize
Applications" menu item).
A common request has been to make cmd-v work across all X11
applications. This isn't possible without re-writing all X11
applications to standardize on a single approach, which is outside the
domain of X11 for Mac OS X.
haroon
On Jun 5, 2004, at 1:42 AM, 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).
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