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: Michael Reilly <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 14:47:45 -0700
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.
This should be enough.
>
> 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.
There should be no need to do this. Step 1 highlighted the text.
>
> 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.
Again this should not be necessary. middle button click should paste the
selected text from step 1.
Select and paste has been a part of X11 since long before Apple ever had
anything to do with it. For whatever reason Apple did not implement it properly
when using X11 on OSX. Too bad.
michael
>
> 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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