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: Dave Williss <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2007 15:43:38 -0500
For me, middle mouse button makes the screen go dim and activates the
Dashboard (annoying since I never use Dashboard).
Option-Click does not paste for me.
xev reports it as a KeyPress with a keycode of 66 and keysym of 0xff7e,
mode_switch.
You are right about it not Cmd-V not copying the text if you deselect it
after Cmd-C. That just seems wrong. It's acting like Cmd-C just tells
the Mac that X11 "owns" the clipboard selection, but doesn't actually
copy it until another app does Ctrl-V. At that point, it asks X11 what
the selection is and there isn't one any more.
Apple's X11 also seems to its copy/paste to and from the Mac clipboard
on the X11 PRIMARY selection rather than the CLIPBOARD property of the
root window, which I think is how most modern X apps do it (I may be
mistaken though, it's been a while since I worked on that sort of thing).
Rich Cook wrote:
To paste text into X11, use the middle mouse button (or option-click).
Copying from x11 to Mac apps works fine for me, unless I am pasting
DESELECTED text from an xterm in X11 *exactly as described*, which it
doesn't sound like you're doing.
On Aug 9, 2007, at 12:36 PM, Dave Williss wrote:
I too can copy from an X11 app (one of our own) and paste to a Mac
app (tested using Terminal).
I wasn't running anything in X11 at the moment, so I shut it down and
restarted. Worked fine.
I *can't* however copy from another app and use Cmd-V to paste into
an X11 app. It just beeps at me if I try, and the Paste item on the
Edit menu is disabled. The only things on the Edit menu which are
enabled are Copy and Special Characters, the later of which pops up
the character pallette but trying to Insert doesn't do anything. I
would expect at least some kind of X event, but xev doesn't report
anything.
This is with X11 1.1.3 running Mac OS 10.4.9 on an Intel Core Duo.
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