Re: copy/paste from X11 to OS X is no longer working
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: "Cook, Rich" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 23:14:21 +0000
- Thread-topic: copy/paste from X11 to OS X is no longer working
There is a sly problem that can happen, not sure if you are having it happen.
If you are passing through an application that steals focus, it can also grab the pasteboard somehow. I've seen my mouse passing through certain windows cause me to lose what I copied from X11 "on the way" to the window that I'm going paste it into.
To be certain this isn't happening, just copy text from an Xterm and paste it into a normal Mac window without allowing your mouse to touch any other X11 windows on the way.
Just a thought
On Aug 16, 2012, at 4:26 AM, Aaron Holtz wrote:
> I have seen this issue before myself under Lion and Snow Leopard. I've
> done everything from try and kill X11 to uncheck and recheck all the
> pasteboard options to kill pboard (I made an assumption that X11 talked to
> it in order for the primary OS to know something was on the pasteboard.)
> However, nothing would restore the functionality except a reboot. I am
> guessing that logging out and back in might fix the problem but my macbook
> tends to lock up at the login screen when I log out, so I do a full
> reboot.
>
> As another poster mentioned you can use pbcopy and pbpaste if you are at a
> point where you can't close everything down to log out/reboot. There's
> nothing like having 20 terminal windows open when this copy/pasting
> feature dies....
>
> I have not had this issue though since upgrading to Moutain Lion and using
> the latest rc XQuartz. Though to be fair I could go weeks under Lion
> before this issue cropped up.
>
> -- Aaron
>
> On Aug 14, Jim Graham molded the electrons to say....
>
> Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2012 23:20:22
> From: Jim Graham <email@hidden>
> To: email@hidden
> Subject: copy/paste from X11 to OS X is no longer working
>
> I don't know what happened, but copy/paste (either using CMD-C or the
> menus) has, in the last few days, stopped working. I can copy from OS X
> apps to X11 apps, but not the other way around. Settings in X11 prefs
> are:
>
> [x] Enable syncinbg
> [x] Update Pasteboard when CLIPBOARD changes
> [x] Update CLIPBOARD when Pasteboard changes
> [x] Update PRIMARY (middle-click) when Pasteboard changes
> [ ] Update Pasteboard immediately when new text is selected
>
> If there are any other settings I should be looking at, please let me
> know and I'll post them as well.
>
> Any idea what's wrong here? I need this FAR too often to allow it to not
> work.... Is there a work-around? When I had a mickeysoft box, and was
> running X in Cygwin to work in my FreeBSD system, I had a pair of Tcl
> scripts which passed data between the X11 and windows clipboards...can I
> do something similar here (assuming it isn't already done, that is)?
>
> Thanks,
> --jim
>
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