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: Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 18:26:23 -0700
Huh? That does't sound right. Can you please explain more (and open a bug report with some reproduction steps)?
Thanks.
On Sep 24, 2012, at 16:14, "Cook, Rich" <email@hidden> wrote:
> 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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