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: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 11:34:52 -0700
Rich Cook wrote:
>
> On Jul 17, 2007, at 2:55 PM, Michael Reilly wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Rich Cook wrote:
>>>
>>> On Jul 17, 2007, at 2:47 PM, Michael Reilly wrote:
>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 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
>>>>>
>>>
>>> You're misunderstanding. He's pasting into an Aqua app.
>> That is no excuse for it not working. The machine has a mouse. I
>> want to use
>> it for something besides scrolling through 10 level deep menus. There
>> is no
>> excuse for Apple not to have a config option to enable use of the mouse.
>
> It works fine, so no excuse is needed,
It does not work fine. It works only partially for *some* apps on the MAC.
> and I never mentioned using a
> menu, and I have never seen one 10 levels deep. :-)
>
> If you want to paste with your mouse, try right-clicking and choose
> "Paste" from the contextual menu that appears. And before you go
> hollering about the extra click in the menu, consider all the other
> options that you get with that right-click menu choice. It's not such a
> heinous world after all... It *would* be a bit nice if middle-click
> pasted from the clipboard in Aqua, though, since it's such a common
> operation.
Unfortunately my boss and most of my colleges refuse to look at the MAC until it
supports this. Most of the comments are along the lines of "I do not want to
have to remember to do something special for some apps on the MAC when X11
already works for all apps on my Linux or windows box?"
All I ever hear is people saying that we don't really want this - mostly from
the same people who decided we can't have it in the first place. No-one has
ever said why the user should not have a choice.
I hope this MAC never wears out since I know I'll never be able to justify
having the company buy me a new one.
michael
>
> Note that X11 only pastes TEXT with a middle click, and does not support
> drag-and-drop copy/paste, which would sometimes be very convenient to have.
>
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