cut&paste
cut&paste
- Subject: cut&paste
- From: John Nabelek <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 03:36:58 -0800
Cut and paste using 'http://www.nongnu.org/autocutsel' works well for
me.
I have 'exec autocutsel &' in my .xinitrc.
Ben Byer wrote:
1. Cut and paste kinda sucks in X11 in general, and this is a
generally agreed-upon fact in the X community. Yes, it generally
works, but it's unpredictable at best. There have been murmurings
about trying to fix that across-the-board -- and I'm first in line
when it comes to spearheading that -- but for whatever reason, it
still hasn't happened.
2. About half of the different permutations of cut and paste between
X11 and Aqua are "simple", in the sense that it's obvious what we
want to accomplish. Many of the rest are open to debate.
3. Most of the cut and paste magic happens within closed-source code
-- quartz-wm (hence the need for running 'quartz-wm --only-proxy).
This is stupid. The source for those bits of code is now up here -- https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13066
. Someone *please* help me find a way to get this into the server
(or at least X11.app in general) so that we can together work on it.
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