Re: Back to copy/paste.
Re: Back to copy/paste.
- Subject: Re: Back to copy/paste.
- From: Harald Hanche-Olsen <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 06:39:07 +0200 (CEST)
+ Merle Reinhart <email@hidden>:
[ Edited to undo top posting ]
> On Apr 17, 2008, at 6:43 PM, Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote:
>
> > - However, if you have EVER used Edit -> Copy in X11, this action will
> > no longer happen (until you quit and restart X11).
> >
> Huh? I have NEVER seen that problem since possibly as long ago as
> the Panther days (or at least the early Tiger days).
But it is definitely what I am seeing in my experiments.
> This is with a plain vanilla X11 (ie, no autocutsel, etc)...at this
> point in time it is Xquartz 2.2.0.1 on Leopard 10.5.2.
Same here, except I am still at 2.2.0 (I am the only user on my
machine, so am not overly concerned over a local privilege
escalation).
> For me, the only way to paste something into say TextEdit on the OS
> X side from an X11 selection is to use Edit -> Copy in X11.
> Otherwise, it is never copied into the OS X pasteboard.
For the PRIMARY selection this is so for me too, but for the CLIPBOARD
selection it just works, until I touch X11 -> Edit -> Copy.
> I like this because then X11 (when copying text from X11 to OS X)
> behaves just like all other OS X apps (ie, you have to Edit -> Copy
> in one app before you can Edit -> Paste into another app).
You may like it, but I dislike it intensely, because I use the Command
key in X11 as Meta, so I have to use the menu in order to copy, with
no keyboard shortcut available.
> X11 is the odd-man-out in that you have to middle-click to paste
> into an X11 window (ie, Edit -> Paste doesn't work).
There used to be (maybe there still is) a movement in the X11 world
towards using the clipboard selection for interprocess cut and paste,
using copy/paste in the individual X11 applications. If all your X11
applications have copy and paste working in this way, you can use
those, and eschew the X11 -> Edit -> Copy item, and everything should
work just fine, if my experiments are anything to go by.
Unfortunately, things aren't so rosy. Xterm is particularly tricky: I
can manage to get xterm to paste the clipboard by a suitable X
resource, but I have not managed to figure out how to copy text from
an xterm to the clipboard.
- Harald
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