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Re: copy/paste from X11 to OS X is no longer working
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Re: copy/paste from X11 to OS X is no longer working


  • Subject: Re: copy/paste from X11 to OS X is no longer working
  • From: Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 09:20:27 -0700

On Aug 17, 2012, at 08:28, Fabian Wenk <email@hidden> wrote:

> I am still using OS X 10.6.8 with system X11.app. And if I remember correctly from the whole thread, the original poster is also using the system X11.app.
>
> I did not play that much with OS X 10.8 and XQuartz 2.7.2 yet. But I did now just a few tests on it:
> - Selecting some text in Terminal.app, pressing Command-c and then in xterm press middle mouse button and it got pasted

Expected with default preferences

> - Selecting some other text in xterm and then in Terminal.app pressing Command-v did not work and still the old content of the pastboard was pasted

Expected with default preferences

> - Selecting again some other text in xterm, pressing Command-c and then in Terminal.app pressing Command-v did work and the correct text was pasted

Expected with default preferences

> - Copy and paste within X11 does work as expected, selecting text and then pressing the middle mouse button. It does even work, when the selected text has been deselected

Expected with default preferences

> So it seems with OS X 10.8 and XQuartz 2.7.2, if something needs to be pasted from X11 to OS X, pressing Command-c is needed.

That has always been the case.  There is a special option for "Update Pasteboard immediately when text is selected" but it is disabled by default.

> As I usually use Command-c for this anyway, I would not have realized this difference without the tests I did earlier on 10.6.8 with system X11.app.
>
>> Perhaps I can try to *downgrade* back to 2.7.1 and see if that
>> reactivates copy-and-paste...
>
> Did you do the log out and log in after the installation of 2.7.2?

That would have no effect on this issue.  You only need to logout on the first install (and with 2.7.2, you will be notified to do so by the installer).

--Jeremy


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