Re: Copying & pasting between X and Mac apps mysteriously stopped working
Re: Copying & pasting between X and Mac apps mysteriously stopped working
- Subject: Re: Copying & pasting between X and Mac apps mysteriously stopped working
- From: Michael McCracken <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 10:59:45 -0500
Dan - Thanks for tracking this down!
I had exactly the same problem, after months of happily using the
pasteboard sync, I idly checked the 'use system alert sound' box in
prefs, and promptly lost pasteboard sync.
I didn't connect the two until I saw your email, but now I'm back in business.
It looks like this was bug #271 - http://xquartz.macosforge.org/trac/ticket/271
Cheers,
-mike
On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 10:50 PM, Dan Harkless
<email@hidden> wrote:
>
> On September 9, 2009, Vernon Williams <email@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> On obvious thing to do is to look in the X11 preferences,
>> under Pasteboard. Make sure Enable syncing is turned on,
>> as well as Update Pasteboard when CLIPBOARD changes,
>> and Update CLIPBOARD when Pasteboard changes.
>> Maybe they got turned off somehow or other.
>
> Hi, Vernon. In the version of X11 on my up-to-date OS X 10.5.8 system,
> "XQuartz 2.1.6 (xorg-server 1.4.2-apple33)", I see no preferences in the X11
> Preferences dialog relating to the Pasteboard. All I have are three
> checkboxes under the Input tab, a dropdown and two checkboxes under Output,
> and two checkboxes under Security. Where are you seeing Pasteboard
> preferences?
>
> However, you did point me in the right direction! Thinking that maybe my
> X11 preferences file had become corrupt somehow, I deleted
> ~/Library/Preferences/org.x.X11.plist, and sure enough, after restarting
> X11, copy & paste between X and Aqua was working again!
>
> However, as soon as I changed the default preferences to match my desires
> (turned on "Emulate three button mouse", turned off "Enable key equivalents
> under X11", and turned on "Use system alert effect" even though that setting
> seems to have no, uh, effect in current versions -- a post I found said it
> hasn't been implemented yet), copying & pasting stopped working again.
>
> I hadn't messed around with .plist file editing before, but opening it in
> the Property List Editor, I found that all these settings were set to No:
>
> sync_clipboard_to_pasteboard
> sync_pasteboard
> sync_pasteboard_to_clipboard
> sync_pasteboard_to_primary
> sync_primary_on_select
>
> When you first open the .plist file after deleting it and having X11.app
> recreate it, it only has (IIRC) 6 key/value pairs, whereas after you make
> settings, it has 21, and the above listed variables now all default to No
> rather than Yes as they apparently used to.
>
> The good news is that if I set all those to Yes, as long as I don't mess
> with the X11 Preferences dialog, the settings stick and copy & paste stays
> working! That sync_primary_on_select setting even saves me from having to
> go up to the menu bar and manually select Edit... Copy every time I need to
> copy text (which was necessary since I leave "Enable key equivalents under
> X11" off so as not to interfere with my meta-key combinations). Awesome!
>
> Thanks very much for the pointer in the right direction. Does anyone know
> what the best way is to report the bug where X11.app is now defaulting all
> the sync_* settings to No?
>
> --
> Dan Harkless
> http://harkless.org/dan/
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