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: "Adam D. I. Kramer" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 14:35:57 -0700 (PDT)
On Tue, 17 Jul 2007, Rich Cook wrote:
Recently, I've switched to using Carbon Emacs for local editing, and
copy-and-paste works splendidly. This doesn't solve copy-and-paste
problems with remote xemacs or local X apps like Wireshark, but it's
reduced my frustration level to a more tolerable level. Choosing
alternative non-X-based apps like this seems to be the only real
solution to this dogged problem. (I've pretty much given up the thought
that Apple will ever fix this.)
Well, I guess there's small consolation in the fact that I haven't been
doing anything wrong, but non-X-based apps completely defeats the purpose
and meaning of having X11 at all.
What is the EXACT thing you're trying to do that does not work? Give a
description of what you do with the mouse and keyboard and the result that
surprises you.
1) Use the mouse and click the button, then I drag it across text which is
in an X11 window. For instance, an xterm.
2) I push command-C, or* go to Edit and down to "copy." Sometimes I hit
command-C like 3 or 4 times out of hope.
3) I click or* alt-tab into another Aqua application. Camino or Safari are
the most common examples.
4) I place the cursor where I would like to paste the info from X11, and
then press command-V or* paste.
5) The result that surprises me is that sometimes NOTHING is pasted, and
sometimes the contents of the clipboard prior to step 1 are pasted. This is
surprising, because I think pressing command-C should copy the selected
text. Note: This does not ALWAYS happen. Sometimes copy and paste works
fine! In fact, if I go back into X11, I note that the appropriate text is
still selected. I copy again, and sometimes it works the 2nd time, sometimes
not. Sometimes I deselect and reselect and copy, and it works, and sometimes
it still doesn't.
*: When I say "or" here, I mean that the option doesn't matter. All 8
disjunction cells produce the same unreliable copying behavior.
--Adam
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