Copying & pasting between X and Mac apps mysteriously stopped working
Copying & pasting between X and Mac apps mysteriously stopped working
- Subject: Copying & pasting between X and Mac apps mysteriously stopped working
- From: "Dan Harkless" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 09 Sep 2009 18:58:38 -0700
Hello, all. Within the last several days, copying & pasting between X
applications (running under Apple's bundled X11.app) and Aqua applications
mysteriously stopped working on my 10.5.8 system, and nothing I've tried has
any effect on the problem.
Copying & pasting from one X app to another (e.g. between multiple xterm
windows) works fine, as does copying & pasting between Aqua apps, but never
the twain shall meet -- each environment has its own idea of what's in the
clipboard, and they don't overwrite each other like they're supposed to.
Though I had changed a few settings that I theorized might have caused this
(e.g. enabling "Emulate three button mouse" in the X11 Preferences, and
changing the "Full keyboard access" setting in the Keyboard & Mouse System
Preferences to "All controls" to enable tabbing to dropdown lists in
browsers), reverting those back to their previous settings did not fix the
problem.
Therefore I have no idea what could have caused this issue, unless it was an
OS X Software Update (or perhaps, I suppose, an update to Office for Mac)
that I installed.
I've tried various things without luck, including the following:
* Restarting X11 and rebooting don't help.
* Some people reporting copy & paste issues in the past reported that
running xclipboard fixed their problem, but this didn't work for me. It
just confirms the behavior that I see via test copies & pastes.
* I tried installing rxvt via fink to make sure it wasn't just an xterm
issue, but it behaved the same way.
* I tried installing and running fink's autocutsel, but it had no effect
other than drawing a strange dot at the bottom-right of my desktop.
* I tried changing my .xinitrc to run quartz-wm in --only-proxy mode and
then running twm as my window manager, but the behavior was the same
in that case.
Any thoughts as to why quartz-wm's clipboard proxying seems to have
spontaneously stopped working, and/or how I might go about getting it to
start again?
--
Dan Harkless
http://harkless.org/dan/
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