Re: UPDATE: Re: copy/paste from X11 to OS X is no longer working
Re: UPDATE: Re: copy/paste from X11 to OS X is no longer working
- Subject: Re: UPDATE: Re: copy/paste from X11 to OS X is no longer working
- From: Brandon Allbery <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 23:40:06 -0400
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 9:03 AM, Jim Graham
<email@hidden> wrote:
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 10:20:22PM -0500, Jim Graham wrote:
> I don't know what happened, but copy/paste (either using CMD-C or the
> menus) has, in the last few days, stopped working.
In doing so, I got an error that might help explain what's going on:
"PRIMARY selection doesn't exist or form "STRING" not defined"
Weird. Can you get it to tell you which of those is failing exactly? The possibilities are:
1. the atom PRIMARY is not interned (shouldn't happen, I think; it's predefined in X11R4+)
2. the selection identified by the atom PRIMARY does not exist (this is the first case of the error)
3. the atom STRING is not interned (this is the second case, and should never happen as it's predefined since at least X11R3)
Note that the PRIMARY selection may indeed not exist simply because nothing has been selected since the X server was launched. This should not be an error, though, as it should be created automatically on use; thus my question about the atom existing.
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brandon s allbery
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