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: Rich Cook <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 14:47:39 -0700
There has to be a reason it works for me without fail and for you
only occasionally.
One sneaky thing I've seen with X11 is that sometimes there is an
application that "steals" the clipboard as you pass your mouse over
it. It can then paste emptiness into it. I forget what the
application was that was doing this. Might have been the Totalview
debugger, in fact I'm pretty sure it was.
Try this:
Open only an xterm, nothing else. Try copying text in it, then hit
command-C then paste into like Mail.app or whatever. If that doesn't
work, you've found yourself a serious bug that you should report to
https://bugreport.apple.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/RadarWeb.woa. If it
does work, then try launching your usual environment in X11, with all
windows showing. If that breaks it, you have a clue.
On Jul 17, 2007, at 2:35 PM, Adam D. I. Kramer wrote:
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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