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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: Ambrose LI <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 12:34:50 -0400

2012/8/17 Fabian Wenk <email@hidden>:
> Hello Ambrose
>
> Do you have any software (mainly 3rd party utilities / helper tools)
> installed, which could have such features? I personally try to avoid them,
> as they sometimes need to do some dirty stuff to the system.

As far as I know. No.

> 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'm not using the system-supplied X11 (and has not been using that for
quite a long time already).

> 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
> - 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
> - 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
> - 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
>
> 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. 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.

That's what I have been doing since some unknown time ago. Ctrl-C from
X apps used to just work, then stopped working at some point...

> Did you do the log out and log in after the installation of 2.7.2?

Yes, many times already (and many of these are power cycles / hard
shutdowns too) :-(


--
cheers,
-ambrose <http://gniw.ca>
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